cannot install ubuntu 10.04

[then_dude]

hello everybody

i'm trying to install 10.04 on a desktop

motherboard: ecs k7s5a (chipset sis 735)

but somehow the livecd doesn't run all the way. It starts to run but after a while it starts to hang, i have waited for 1 hour. nothing happens anymore, so i never see the login screen.

(the cd is perfect : other pc's run fine on it).

i have looked around but not found anything, (i thought that maybe the sis 735 was not supported or so, but nothing looks like that)

thanks guys

[Quackers]

What do you mean by strats to hang?
On which screen? Does it get to a screen or just go black? Some details please.

[garvinrick4]

Is about a 10 year old motherboard and chipset, good place to start looking into.

[mr clark25]

the disk could have a minor scratch on it. some cd drives are pickier than others.

did you try "check disk for defects"? (on the computer having issues)

[then_dude]

hello everybody,

believe it or not, i'm replying from a linux system.

i found a Kubuntu cd, (i tried kubuntu and ubuntu) no of them was working. i forgot what the last message was before hanging and tried to reinstall it. and all of a sudden it is working; very strange. but hé, i'm happy;

i have a small problem in de kde, but don't know what causes it.

my screen shows very little contrast, i can hardly see the different tabs in konquerer. (for example). my videocard is a ati 7000 and my screen is a acer al922 tft, i'm using the d-sub vga interface on the tft panel.

thanks guys

yes it is an old motherboard, something like 7-8 year.
i had heard that some kernels did not support intel chipsets that why i opened this topic