formatting stops at 33%

[rpalmeida]

I have been using Ubuntu for 3 years now, and I'm very happy with it. This is my first post because the search function has always worked for me, until now. I have this new computer and when I try to install Ubuntu on it, the formatting process always jumps directly to 33% and never moves again. This hapens with different hard drives, both sata and IDE, and the same thing happens with many different releases (tried 8.10, 8.04 live-cd AND alternate and 7.10 live-cd AND alternate).

Does someone have any idea on what is going on?

[taurus]

Is there anything on the harddrive (like windows)? If you're using the LiveCD, format it with gparted first to see if that works. You can even create partitions with gparted.

[rpalmeida]

Problem solved. It was a bad RAM stick.

[prabhakaran1989]

Problem solved. It was a bad RAM stick.

thanks..i have learned one thing...with this post!