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Problems during install of 11.10

Asked by Andrew Selder

I'm trying to install Ubuntu from a CD on to my system and failing massively.

I get to the Advanced Options screen, and then when I select install, I get a screen full of white stripes about a inch wide for about 10 seconds and then the monitor says no signal, and I can't get any further.

I tried adding vga=788 and fb=false to the boot parameters but I had no luck there either.

My video card is and AMD Radeon HD 6700.
Computer is a Dell XPS 420 (Quad core Q9650)
6 GB of memory

Does anyone have any ideas?

Thanks,

Andrew

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

Did you MD5 test the ISO you downloaded?
Did you burn the CD as slowly as possible?

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delance (olivier-delance) said : 		#2

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HowToMD5SUM
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/CDIntegrityCheck

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Andrew Selder (aselder) said : 		#3

I downloaded the alternate installer and that seems to work fine, however now when I try and boot into Ubuntu, I get a similar scenario.

The system starts up and I get a screen with garbled static at the bottom half of the screen. The screen then goes blank and the monitor says no signal and then I'm forced to hard reboot.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#4

Boot to safe vga mode and you can install the proprietary driver

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