HIPS
May 3rd, 2009, 11:38 AM
Hi everyone,
I just tried to install Xubuntu on my son's Dell Dimension 4300. I did choose Wubi, so it should be easy to remove if he doesn't like it.
Th installation went well (it did complain that the memory was only 255 Mb instead of 256, but it did not stop or anything).
So when it was time for rebooting I got the boot menu and the progress bar for Xubuntu came up. When the progress bar was almost finished the screen just went black with the cursor in the upper left corner. The only thing I could do was to turn of the power – nothing else worked. I tried to start in recovery mode, but that doesn't work either. It just says [OK] to everything until it goes black again.
The computer is as I mentioned a Dell Dimension 4300 with an Intel Pentium 4 processor (1,7 GHz) and 256 MB RAM. I also has a Nivida GeForce 6200 Graphics card. The OS is XP with SP3.
I have seen others with similar problems, but no real solution yet, so I hope some of you out there can help me with this.
I just tried to install Xubuntu on my son's Dell Dimension 4300. I did choose Wubi, so it should be easy to remove if he doesn't like it.
Th installation went well (it did complain that the memory was only 255 Mb instead of 256, but it did not stop or anything).
So when it was time for rebooting I got the boot menu and the progress bar for Xubuntu came up. When the progress bar was almost finished the screen just went black with the cursor in the upper left corner. The only thing I could do was to turn of the power – nothing else worked. I tried to start in recovery mode, but that doesn't work either. It just says [OK] to everything until it goes black again.
The computer is as I mentioned a Dell Dimension 4300 with an Intel Pentium 4 processor (1,7 GHz) and 256 MB RAM. I also has a Nivida GeForce 6200 Graphics card. The OS is XP with SP3.
I have seen others with similar problems, but no real solution yet, so I hope some of you out there can help me with this.