cannot boot up 7.10

Could you try booting Ubuntu in Recovery Mode and provide the results of doing that.

You must understand that I am brand new to Linux and honestly haven't a clue how all of this works. As far as Recovery mode, I get to a certain point and I just don't know what to do next

What do I enter at root@blub$ ? (blub being my computer)

When I boot up normally, I get to

Running Local Boot Scripts (/etc/rc.local) -OK-

It wants to go to the login screen but reverts back to the above. It does this 6 times before I get the message that it has tried 6 times in 90 seconds to shut down and will pause for 2 minutes before continuing. When I wait the 2 min., see above...

Now could you please provide some details of your system, what VGA card does it have, how much RAM, etc.

I can only tell you the basics as I am having a hard time finding said information.

The computer is a HP Pavilion a610n originally setup for Windows XP SP1 (no longer there) and the processor is an AMD Athlon XP 3000+

I hope this helps

I forgot to mention that I for RAM I have a 512MB DDR which makes for 448MB usable RAM

I think your main problem is your VIA card.

Unfortunately I am not that good on VIA cards, so you would have to wait until someone who has experience with VIA cards helps you out.

For those wanting to know the VGA card, here it is:-
VIA S63 UniChrome graphics

A rather good list of specifications can be found here:-
http://www.dealtime.com/xPF-Hewlett-Packard-a610n-Pavilion-Desktop-PC

If my problem was perhaps with my chipset, could I still boot form my CD ROM as I am now?

I have installed Ubuntu on VIA S63 UniChrome graphics.

Please tell if is this the first time that you are tring to boot Ubuntu with this pc.
If you have just installed Ubuntu and this is your first boot with Ubuntu please try this:

Please try to press CTRL+ALT+"+" and/or CTRL+ALT+"-" to dynamically change video frequency
or press CTRL+ALT+BKSPACE to restart graphics layer.

Reconfiguring your xserver-xorg may help you.

A) ---- If you can view graphics Gnome desktop

Please open a Terminal from the menu Applications->Accessories->Terminal
and jump to step C

B) ---- If you cannot view graphics Gnome desktop

Please press CTRL+ALT+F2 and make login with your user and password
and go on to step C

C) ----------------------------------------------------------------------

To make a backup copy of your actual /etc/X11/xorg.conf type:

cd /etc/X11
sudo cp xorg.conf xorg.conf.bak

give your user password when requested, you don't see nothing when you type it, then press enter.

Then try to reconfigure your xserver-xorg

sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

answer to the simply questions, then restart the pc.

If something goes wrong you can restore the saved copy of your old configuration, open a terminal or login to a virtual terminal by pressing ctrl+alt+F2 and type:

cd /etc/X11
sudo cp xorg.conf.bak xorg.conf

and restart the pc, type:

sudo reboot

Hope this helps