Installation :Locking Up

[Maddawg40]

Hello,

I have downloaded Ubunto 9.10 and burnt to CD, and it is locking up while looking at it before installation and during installation. I have a HP/Compaq SR 5350F with Windows Vista SP2 already installed. (I have a Sapphire Radeon 4550 graphics card that I disabled for the install and have enabled the onboard graphics through VGA cable.) I would like to have it setup for dualboot. While looking around at Ubunto before installing, it was locking up when I went to see about changing the mouse properties. I then rebooted and just went right into installing Ubunto and it locked up with the screen showing the partition selections. Initially, I had a Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer mouse and Logiech Access keyboard - I tried a 2 button wheel mouse and the OEM keyboard but that didn't help. I ran both tests that come up on the first selection screen and they were both good.

Your help in getting this to install is much appreciated. Thank You, Mark

[jjcv]

Did it boot of the live CD and work okay?

My system booted fine of a similar Radeon card. How did you disable it... by removing it I presume?

The mouse should not be a problem. At least it would still come up with the install screen... you just will have no mouse if it not recognized.

[Maddawg40]

The lock ups are when running from the live CD. I haven't been able to install to my hard drive.

I disabled the Sapphire 4550 video card in the BIOS by selecting the onboard video (because the display through the Sapphire card didn't show the whole screen - I will install the Sapphire video card driver after installing Ubunto). I can try removing the video card to see if that makes a difference.

Any other ideas to get Ubunto installed? Thank You, Mark

[Maddawg40]

I physically removed the Sapphire 4550 video card and tried to install Ubuntu. It did install but still does not function. It locks up before I can do anything. I tried to update but it locked up before I could do so. I then booted into Ubuntu recovery mode and found dpkg to repair and ran it. It did update about 80 things but the problem still persists.

I am writing this from my Windows boot and want to get rid of it and use Ubuntu. Any help is much appreciated. Thank You, Mark