S1Drano
October 13th, 2010, 03:45 PM
Hi, I downloaded Ubuntu 10.10 2 days ago and tried to instal it on my:
HP EliteBook 8540w
Intel Core i7 740QM
Intel QM57 Express
8GB RAM
nVidia Quadro FX 1800 with CUDA (1GB)
Of course I went 64bit, but the Live CD wouldn't start. Instead I get some weird artifacts on my screen.
I can see bits of my Windows-background with taskbar and some of the windows I was using earlier before restarting, like the download manager. If cold boot my PC I see black and white boxes with coloured dots on them.
Thus I thought of an issue with the 64bit architecture and possibly the grafics card too (the artifacts are clearly remnants of data from the VRAM)
I tried the same with the 32bit version and got the same issue (indicating NO issue with 64bit, at least not directly).
In the end, I installed Ubuntu from the alternate 64bit CD and now am stuck with a non-working installation of Ubuntu.
I get some kind of error concerning pcieport (probably PCI Express).
When I install Ubuntu on Virtualbox through Windows 7 however, I don't get any kind of issue (I'd still like to be able to run Ubuntu natively)
Any idea on how to fix the problem?
PS: I'm not very experienced with Linux, so if you ask me to go into console mode, please be detailed on what command I should input.
I'm very grateful to anyone who took his (or her) time reading my post trying to help me.
HP EliteBook 8540w
Intel Core i7 740QM
Intel QM57 Express
8GB RAM
nVidia Quadro FX 1800 with CUDA (1GB)
Of course I went 64bit, but the Live CD wouldn't start. Instead I get some weird artifacts on my screen.
I can see bits of my Windows-background with taskbar and some of the windows I was using earlier before restarting, like the download manager. If cold boot my PC I see black and white boxes with coloured dots on them.
Thus I thought of an issue with the 64bit architecture and possibly the grafics card too (the artifacts are clearly remnants of data from the VRAM)
I tried the same with the 32bit version and got the same issue (indicating NO issue with 64bit, at least not directly).
In the end, I installed Ubuntu from the alternate 64bit CD and now am stuck with a non-working installation of Ubuntu.
I get some kind of error concerning pcieport (probably PCI Express).
When I install Ubuntu on Virtualbox through Windows 7 however, I don't get any kind of issue (I'd still like to be able to run Ubuntu natively)
Any idea on how to fix the problem?
PS: I'm not very experienced with Linux, so if you ask me to go into console mode, please be detailed on what command I should input.
I'm very grateful to anyone who took his (or her) time reading my post trying to help me.