Comment 116 for bug 96084

My girlfriends little sister needed a laptop for internet office and some other small things. I've been watching Ubuntu for some time and i downloaded it an hour ago.
I came across this problem as well.

I have a P3-800 old laptop that has been doing service for some time.

I found my solution when i added the option (via F6 in bootup menu) all_generic_ide;
this resulted in an error and the message "try the option irqpoll"

Instead of adding "all_generic_ide" i added "irqpoll" and the little creature started living suddenly...

hoping this will help others.