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shonecse
April 21st, 2011, 10:52 PM
I bought 4 dell optiplex sx280's and monitors, and wanted to install either ubuntu 10.04 or 10.10 downloaded both serveral times but get the same problem on all 4 dell's but cd's ok on a home built pc.

What i get is with the cd-r in and then power the pc up i get the indication on screan that its accessing the installation scripts but then the screens go black and a few seconds later they drop to power saver mode, but the cd-rom drive led indicates the cd is still being accest the sx280's have built in graphics with a dvi out put.

Any idea's please

KegHead
April 21st, 2011, 11:14 PM
Hi!

The specs look ok.

How much ram do you have?

Any chance you could do a USB install?

KegHead

http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/products/optix/en/spec_optix_sx280_en.pdf