S7even0
May 30th, 2009, 02:45 AM
Greetings! Sorry for coming here with my problems.
Basically there is a long story which requires me to do a reformat due to broken OS, the OS is broken in that the language file broke and it had trouble rebuilding it as it just hangs. I was directed to Ubuntu by a friend as the solution of allowing me to access my harddrive through another OS without a reformat/clean install, so I plug in my external harddrive so I can back up important documents before planning to reformat it.
Anyway, what happens is this. When I put in the CD and the computer loads up the CD, then it goes to a black screen with a table in the corner full of numbers and letters which make no sense to me. If I press a key, the numbers/letters in the table change a bit the computer reboots (obviously, ends up running into same situation)
Thought it might have been the CD, so I tried it on my laptop, the CD worked brilliantly, using the try function, was able to use my external harddrive and tested backing up a file. So it seems this is the idea solution to the problem with this in theory.
As it worked, I thought there might be some dirt on the CD or something, so I made sure it was clean and put it in the computer I want to use it on. However, it is the same problem happening as earler. Black screen, half a table or something in the top left corner, some nonsensual numbers and letters in what is visible.
I cleared CMOS and I removed 4 gigs of my ram (was 8gig total) to see if it was any settings or having too much ram being a problem. However, exact same error is occuring.
For computer specification if that assists -
IP35 Pro Motherboard
Q6600 Quad-Core 2.4Ghz
4 gig DDR2 ram
Nvidia GTX8800 Graphics card
On-board Sound
Basically there is a long story which requires me to do a reformat due to broken OS, the OS is broken in that the language file broke and it had trouble rebuilding it as it just hangs. I was directed to Ubuntu by a friend as the solution of allowing me to access my harddrive through another OS without a reformat/clean install, so I plug in my external harddrive so I can back up important documents before planning to reformat it.
Anyway, what happens is this. When I put in the CD and the computer loads up the CD, then it goes to a black screen with a table in the corner full of numbers and letters which make no sense to me. If I press a key, the numbers/letters in the table change a bit the computer reboots (obviously, ends up running into same situation)
Thought it might have been the CD, so I tried it on my laptop, the CD worked brilliantly, using the try function, was able to use my external harddrive and tested backing up a file. So it seems this is the idea solution to the problem with this in theory.
As it worked, I thought there might be some dirt on the CD or something, so I made sure it was clean and put it in the computer I want to use it on. However, it is the same problem happening as earler. Black screen, half a table or something in the top left corner, some nonsensual numbers and letters in what is visible.
I cleared CMOS and I removed 4 gigs of my ram (was 8gig total) to see if it was any settings or having too much ram being a problem. However, exact same error is occuring.
For computer specification if that assists -
IP35 Pro Motherboard
Q6600 Quad-Core 2.4Ghz
4 gig DDR2 ram
Nvidia GTX8800 Graphics card
On-board Sound