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install 8.10 on Compaq Presario 5003 fails

Asked by Jon Rabitoy

I have a compaq presario 5003 desktop that I am trying to get some life out of, I started the installed process with UBUNTU 8.10, allowed it to use all of the HDD space, essentially thinking that it would overright XP, at the 75% point of installtion, UBUNTU could not keep my video/graphics chipset from crashing, keep trying and waiting for 2 minutes and tried again and waited for 2 minutes and etc. I finally shut it down. I looked on the board, its an onboard intel 810 chipset for video and allows 11 MB of swap from the ram I would assume. The install crashed, have no way to loading drivers until an OS installs propoerly, what do I do? Help?

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BdG (borisdeg) said : 		#1

Duplicate of question #60068. Please respond here: https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/60068

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Tom (tom6) said : 		#2

Please re-post this question as some confusion has happened. there are quite a few similar questions worth hunting around in for answers. Good luck. On thnigh that migh be worth trying is going up to the top taskbar and clicking on

Applications - Accessories - Terminal

into the terminal/command window/console please type

sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

Good lck and happy hunting, regards from
Tom :)

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Tom (tom6) said : 		#3

https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/60072

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Tom (tom6) said : 		#4

If you are still having trouble with this then please post it as a new question. Only the most recent questions tend to get looked at so posting/reposting a question just before america arrives online after work/school gives the best chance of getting a good few answers.
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+addquestion

If the problem has been resolved then please follow the link to the forum thread and mark it as Solved.

Good luck and many regards from
Tom :)

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