Thespian
April 28th, 2008, 01:24 AM
Just tried to install 8.04 from the live CD. The kernel loads, the Ubuntu logo comes up, the orange bar goes back and forth, then (running form liveCD) I get the basic Ubuntu beige background screen with a mouse pointer that won't move, and nothing happens, or (booting from disk after using the Windows installer) I get the Heron background, with a non-moving mouse pointer. In both cases, the system just hangs. No error messages, no response to keyboard or mouse, just dead.
I tried one of the other forum thread suggestions of adding "noacpi" to the boot options with no effect. I've run memtest on my machine (all good) and I've verified the CD burn (also good).
Any suggestions on what to try next? This machine ran Fiesty and Gutsy form LiveCD just fine.
Thanks,
Thespian
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Desktop system specs:
Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2 (build 2600)
1.60 gigahertz AMD Athlon XP
128 kilobyte primary memory cache
256 kilobyte secondary memory cache Board: ASUSTeK Computer INC. A7V266-E REV 1.xx
Bus Clock: 133 megahertz
BIOS: Award Software, Inc. ASUS A7V266-E ACPI BIOS Rev 1011 08/20/2002
Drives
200.04 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity
20.96 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space
PIONEER DVD-ROM DVD-116 [CD-ROM drive]
PLEXTOR DVDR PX-760A [CD-ROM drive]
ST3200822A [Hard drive] (200.05 GB) -- drive 0, s/n 5LJ0YX9M, rev 3.01, SMART Status: Healthy 1536 Megabytes Installed Memory
Slot 'DIMM 1' has 512 MB
Slot 'DIMM 2' has 512 MB
Slot 'DIMM 3' has 512 MB
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I tried one of the other forum thread suggestions of adding "noacpi" to the boot options with no effect. I've run memtest on my machine (all good) and I've verified the CD burn (also good).
Any suggestions on what to try next? This machine ran Fiesty and Gutsy form LiveCD just fine.
Thanks,
Thespian
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Desktop system specs:
Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2 (build 2600)
1.60 gigahertz AMD Athlon XP
128 kilobyte primary memory cache
256 kilobyte secondary memory cache Board: ASUSTeK Computer INC. A7V266-E REV 1.xx
Bus Clock: 133 megahertz
BIOS: Award Software, Inc. ASUS A7V266-E ACPI BIOS Rev 1011 08/20/2002
Drives
200.04 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity
20.96 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space
PIONEER DVD-ROM DVD-116 [CD-ROM drive]
PLEXTOR DVDR PX-760A [CD-ROM drive]
ST3200822A [Hard drive] (200.05 GB) -- drive 0, s/n 5LJ0YX9M, rev 3.01, SMART Status: Healthy 1536 Megabytes Installed Memory
Slot 'DIMM 1' has 512 MB
Slot 'DIMM 2' has 512 MB
Slot 'DIMM 3' has 512 MB
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