Stop blinking at me!!!

[chips24]

well, i tried the shift thing again, and it wont start it again, it doesnt even go into the loading screen. how come it works ok on the live cd, but it just crashes on its own? i made sure it installed ok, there were no errors except for my wireless drivers- that i needed to update them- but it was fine...

sould i erase the partition and load an earlier version of the os?

[oldos2er]

What video card do you have?

[wilee-nilee]

When you use shift you should be at grub hit e and use the arrow keys to navigate to the end of the kernel and remove nomodset and no splash, hit crtl-x, it may work.

To identify the graphics in the terminal.

lspci | grep VGA

This sounds like a graphics problem but without more detail it is hard to tell.

[chips24]

sorry, im actually using xp... here is graphics information

Intel(R) Graphics Media Accelerator Driver for Mobile Report


Report Date: 08/18/2010
Report Time[hr:mm:ss]: 10:44:10
Driver Version: 6.14.10.4926
Operating System: Windows XP* Home Edition, Service Pack 3 (5.1.2600)
Default Language: English
DirectX* Version: 9.0
Physical Memory: 1013 MB
Minimum Graphics Memory: 8 MB
Maximum Graphics Memory: 224 MB
Graphics Memory in Use: 8 MB
Processor: x86 family 6 Model 28 Stepping 2
Processor Speed: 1596 MHZ
Vendor ID: 8086
Device ID: 27AE
Device Revision: 03


* Accelerator Information *

Accelerator in Use: Mobile Intel(R) 945 Express Chipset Family
Video BIOS: 1585.0
Current Graphics Mode: 1024 by 600 True Color (60 Hz)



* Devices Connected to the Graphics Accelerator *


Active Notebook Displays: 1


* Notebook *

Monitor Name: Plug and Play Monitor
Display Type: Digital
Gamma Value: 2.20
DDC2 Protocol: Supported
Maximum Image Size: Horizontal: Not Available
Vertical: Not Available
Monitor Supported Modes:
1024 by 600 (60 Hz)

[chips24]

ok, well none of the commands worked, if i cant find something soon, i am going to delete the partition.

[TNT1]

Did you try the "nomodeset" switch when booting?

[chips24]

was it in the commands under edit? if it was, i didnt see any. and F6 didnt do anything. im keeping it for one more day, and if its not resolved, im sticking with widows xp.

btw, if i dont get this resolved, how do i remove the partition, restore bootstrap and get windows to boot up properly without a disk drive?

[chips24]

i should probably also mention that the computer get very quiet after i select the OS, this doesnt happen when i boot XP. should i use an earlier version of ubuntu?

i tried using 8.04, but it had trouble mounting disks.

and like i said, 10.04 doesnt even get into the loading screen, it just starts a blinking curser after i select the os.

[chips24]

Its really weird, it boots sometime, but sometimes not.
please, can you explain in detail to me what you mean by the nomodeset?
I dont understand where where and how to edit this command.

[FahadMKS]

If you really only have 99MB RAM, I'd say that's one possible cause of your problem.

It seems that the Ram itself is the problem.