Computer wont boot right

Thanks for the question.

Could you please hit the 'F6'-key when you are in the start menu and delete the options 'quiet' and 'splash'. This might show you any error messages occuring and you can post those here and we can have a look at them.

Thanks

When I do that all it says is "Loading kernel" then the computer restarts. My friend tested the CD on his computer running Win XP home edition and it worked fine. But when im running it under Win XP pro it just restarts itself.

The Live-CD is a little bity bitchy on some CDs. Do you want to test or to install Ubuntu? If you want to install, get the Alternate-CD an use this CD to install Ubuntu. The result at the end is the same.

Can you try pressing F6 and remove quiet and splash as suggested, but also add one of the following:-

noapic
noacpi
nolapic

One by one.

The noapic, noacpi, and nolapic commands did not work. Where can I get a alternate CD?

Here http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download Make sure you check the small box underneath the download button saying "check here if you need alternate CD".

When I attempted to install the alternate CD all that showed on my screen was this "INT 14: CR2 df800000 err 0000000 EIP..."

Hello,

Mike, the "df800000" is an input/output memory address -- if you were able to boot i would like to see your /proc/iomem list for the df8*** to see what it is.
The EIP may be relating to your Network card, if it is built in -- try disabling it in your BIOS. If it is an add-on card, try taking it out . Then if it boots try it in another slot.
Then try your Ubuntu LiveCD .

I really hope this helps ,

Jeff

what was the solution

sorry to add another post, but I am having the exact same issue. In fact most of my linux flavours will not work on this computer, and I do not understand why. I have yet to try all of the solutions above, including the alternative CD. I will try to report back my solution but if Mike up here had a specific solution that would be great as I had this error:

Int14: df800000 err 000000000 EIPc020c384 CS 00000060 flags 00010007
stack: c00f8050 c0371d8c 000000002 c00f8059 000f8050 000000000 000000000

ill check back in.

Well someone recommended using the command noapic but that did not work so when I did some research I found that if I use the command noapic acpi=off it will boot.

hmm mabey that will help me