boot experience using live CD 64 on Dell Vostro 3750

Did you MD5 test the ISO you downloaded?

No, but I'm sure that it was all right. As per instuctions, I didnt download the ISO directly, it was done
with a windows program. Other trials in various modes caused to same basic thing to happen
up to the screen going blank after the menu stage, so I'm sure the ISO itself was ok.
--rg

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still should check it to be double sure, bad data will give you issues. What video chip is the system you are installing on using?

This system has 2 GPUs, the 3400 built into the processor and a NVIDIA 520GT.
I eventually want to use the NVIDIA, but have not dealt with that yet. I havent changed
any defaults so I dont know for sure which is being used.
Conceivably, it could be different ones at different times.
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Yeah those dual GPU things are a nightmare to get working. I haven't heard a single success story with them. There is bumblebee to switch between but I've not heard it working well. You could try addingthe bootoption:

nouveau.blacklist=1 nomodeset

See if it helps. This thing will cause you issues.

Well, now that Xubuntu is sucessfully installed dual booted, I don't know exactly how to specify
text type boot options. Now if you boot the machine, it presents a list of options
three of which are Linux and one is windows 7. If you let it timeout, in 7 seconds it goes to the default linux (which
presumably incorporates the acpi=off specified on the boot from the USB key which linux then did the Install.
-rg

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> heard a single success story with them. There is bumblebee to switch
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> nouveau.blacklist=1 nomodeset
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Great article RickG!

Just obtained almost the same notebook, i5-2410M, GT525M.
Tried to boot from flash-drive whole day today with no luck (even tried 11.10 beta1 with no luck), finally burned the CD and booted from that normally (ubuntu 11.04 amd64), with no special options! The deal is probably with the USB ports, in some reason BIOS can't boot from flash in single USB2.0 port (even with BIOS updated to A05), can be booted from other USB ports on the right side, but those are actually USB3.0 and even Windows doesn't recognize them without special drivers (BIOS does, but probably default linux drivers had issues with that). TADAAA - ubuntu just finally started after install!!!

Another thing just for reference, to enable compiz:

the NVIDIA driver was activated by default (probably because i checked third-party downloads during install).
The compiz didn't worked on boot.
I tried nvidia-xconfig (as nvidia configuration tool said it is not active), on reboot no graphic was loaded.
logged into text console, restored X config (/etc/X11/xorg.conf from .backup), rebooted and deactivated nvidia driver from "additional drivers" tool. after reboot compiz surprisingly start working! So i'm almost all set with my ubuntu initial install. Even usb3.0 ports are working with no issues and no additional actions required.

Hope this will help!

this issue is related to USB3.0 ... remove any device from USB3.0 ports and try again.
acpi=off is not good idea ;)