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unable to install Ubunto 10.4 into an Acer aspire t671

Asked by Steve Tayler

I have a Acer aspire T671 which origianally came with vista installed which I loathed from the start, but persivered with it for 6 months before binning the pile of crap. I then installed an earlier version of Ubunto on the system. I had trouble getting it in, but I did get it in in the end, though I can't remember how.

Anyway recently I had to do a clean install and have put windows xp on the first partition of a drive I have that empty partition and an empty drive in the pc. But using the cd and the memory stick I can't get 10.4 to even get as far as the partitioning tool.

It seems to boot ok from cd or memory stick and I can make my initial selection. But after selecting either run a live version, or install, the dives come to life, but afrer a few minutes the screen just goes black the drives do not show any further activity. it just sits there like that doing nothing. I even left it overnight last night, but nothing is happening.

I have tried various boot options, to no avail, Unless I have not hit the correct combinations of options.

The screen however does not go into standby (LG Flatron w1943ss) so presumably it is getting a signal of some kind, even if I can't see it.

If anyone could help with this issue I would be grateful, because for me windows just does not cut it anymore and certainly not vista.

Steve

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

The OS is called UBUNTU, not Ubunto.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_(operating_system)

Did you MD5 test the ISO you downloaded?

http://www.ubuntugeek.com/how-to-fix-ubuntu-10-04-lts-lucid-blank-screen-at-startup.html

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#2

May be your Ubuntu live install cd is not perfect or it can't be read from your cdrom drive please verify it...

Here some general note and howto:

The main ubuntu site is this: www.ubuntu.com and the download location is this
http://www.ubuntu.com/desktop/get-ubuntu/download

Prerequisites: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/SystemRequirements
Please also be sure to read the release notes: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LucidLynx/ReleaseNotes

1) please download the 700 mb file http://www.ubuntu.com/desktop/get-ubuntu/download simply press on download button
To avoid download errors please prefer to download the desired ubuntu iso install cd image using the torrent protocol.
2) check the md5sum of downloaded file to be sure it have no error https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HowToMD5SUM

Only if the md5sum number match with this: http://releases.ubuntu.com/10.04/MD5SUMS go to the next steps otherwise
install a torrent client i suggest you http://deluge-torrent.org/ if you are using Windows and download the iso using a .torrent link from here:
http://releases.ubuntu.com/10.04/ubuntu-10.04-desktop-i386.iso.torrent

3) burn the iso image onto a cd, to do it install and use http://infrarecorder.org/?page_id=5
4) insert the self made install cd into your pc cdrom drive and reboot your pc. You must not see Windows starting and you can try Ubuntu from cdrom and then install it

If you have trouble with installation (the system freeze or you can't complete it) be sure to read the above suggestions, then:

1.a ) Please boot entirely (you must not see windows starting) from Ubuntu live install cd and when the system start to boot from cd you will see two bottom screen icons (keyboard and man inside circle ) please press space (choose your desired language) then a screen textual center menu will appear to you with this items in it:

Try Ubuntu without installing
Install Ubuntu
Check disc for defects
Test memory
Boot from first hard disk

Please select "Check disc for defects" and press enter to test if your cd-driver can read in a good way the live install cd... or if the install cd have some defective file in it.
Then please also perform a Test memory to be sure your pc RAM memory have not any issue

http://www.ubuntugeek.com/how-to-fix-ubuntu-10-04-lts-lucid-blank-screen-at-startup.html

---- Trouble with intel8xxx graphic cards:

please try this: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Bugs/Lucidi8xxFreezes

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Steve Tayler (steve-tayler-uk) said : 		#3

Thanks for the answers supplied by all you great people. But this appears to be a machine specific issue. I downloaded 2 separate copies of the ubuntu live installer on 2 different occasions. Mainly because I had misplaced the first copy.

Both these coppies worked on other machines. The lap top is normally fussy, but had no problems with either disk. All my older machines worked happily with the disks as well.

It is only the Acer that is giving me grief. I tried the suggested fixes and it seemed promising in as much as I had a logo with dots lighting up beneath it to look at, instead of a black screen, but unfortunately it did nothing more than this. This was true of both the cd and the USB memory stick

The acer is one of my fastest machines and the others are now begining to show thier age speed wise so the Acer is where I need the OS to be.

It was on this machine before, but the disk it was on failed since then I have not been able to get it to go back on a newly partitioned SATA drive with windows XP on partition 1. I have 2 new drives, that I may try later, but I have my doubts the problem is the HD.

Many thanks for all your suggestions to date.

Steve

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