the pearly gates
May 6th, 2011, 02:07 AM
Hi,
I recently installed Xubuntu 11.04 fresh on my machine. There were some minor freezes that occurred that seem to be pretty common while reading these forums, but other than that it was working great.
A couple of times on restart the computer froze up. And when I say froze up, nothing appeared. Usually there's a splash screen with the "HP" logo, but in this case it didn't even get that far. My monitor was black but the orange "idle" power light was on. I had to hold the power button down to shut it off and turn it back on again. After that it was able to boot up as normal.
I should have taken this as a warning, and it has gotten worse and worse. Now I'm at the point where I can't even turn the computer on even once to get it back to the desktop. Like I said, on startup, there is no splash screen, no grub menu, no audible beeps, no blinking cursor, just a black screen.
I bought this off of woot a while back ago, so if you're looking for system specs here they are: http://www.woot.com/Blog/ViewEntry.aspx?Id=16398
Also, I read this forum here http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1743535 about graphics errors, but I figured this didn't apply to my case because the users there were able to get to a terminal or the grub boot menu.
What I would like to do is do a fresh install of 10.04 LTS. Does anyone know of a way that I would be able to do this if I can't even get the HP splash screen to appear in order to boot from a USB stick?
Any help would be greatly appreciated... right now I'm stuck with a brick :(
Thanks,
Tim
I recently installed Xubuntu 11.04 fresh on my machine. There were some minor freezes that occurred that seem to be pretty common while reading these forums, but other than that it was working great.
A couple of times on restart the computer froze up. And when I say froze up, nothing appeared. Usually there's a splash screen with the "HP" logo, but in this case it didn't even get that far. My monitor was black but the orange "idle" power light was on. I had to hold the power button down to shut it off and turn it back on again. After that it was able to boot up as normal.
I should have taken this as a warning, and it has gotten worse and worse. Now I'm at the point where I can't even turn the computer on even once to get it back to the desktop. Like I said, on startup, there is no splash screen, no grub menu, no audible beeps, no blinking cursor, just a black screen.
I bought this off of woot a while back ago, so if you're looking for system specs here they are: http://www.woot.com/Blog/ViewEntry.aspx?Id=16398
Also, I read this forum here http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1743535 about graphics errors, but I figured this didn't apply to my case because the users there were able to get to a terminal or the grub boot menu.
What I would like to do is do a fresh install of 10.04 LTS. Does anyone know of a way that I would be able to do this if I can't even get the HP splash screen to appear in order to boot from a USB stick?
Any help would be greatly appreciated... right now I'm stuck with a brick :(
Thanks,
Tim