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Live CD boot freeze 9.10

Asked by Strider581

My system:
Motherboard: Asus P4R800-VM
CPU:Pentium 4 3 GHz
Video: onboard ATI Radeon 9100 IGP

I am attempting to reload Ubuntu 9.10 onto my computer after a motherboard upgrade. My installed 9.10 install did not boot after the upgrade, as expected. When I attempt to boot from the live CD, it does one of three things in normal mode:
1: Hangs with a flashing cursor displayed.
2:Hangs with the Ubuntu animation frozen.
3:The Ubuntu animation moves, but never gets to the point where it shows the progress bar (it just moves back and forth ad infinitum.)

If I remove "quiet" and "splash" from the kernel arguments, it displays many lines of text, followed by something about putting the kernel text in write-protect mode, and then it hangs at a "Loading, please wait..." message.

Fedora Core 10 is already installed on this computer, and functions normally. However, to install it, I had to add an acpi=off to the kernel arguments, else it did the same sorts of things Ubuntu is now doing. Doing the same thing in the Ubuntu Live arguments produces no change.

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Strider581 (creation581) said : 		#1

This also occurs when attempring to use the Alternate CD, or when simply telling it to "Install Ubuntu" as opposed to "Try Ubuntu without change to your computer". Since my hardware is a standard, modern computer, this shouldn't be happening.

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Strider581 (creation581) said : 		#2

This also occurs when attempting to use the Alternate CD, or when simply telling it to "Install Ubuntu" as opposed to "Try Ubuntu without change to your computer". Since my hardware is a standard, modern computer, this shouldn't be happening.

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Strider581 (creation581) said : 		#3

It was the BIOS. I was running version 1002, and the latest is 1007. Once I flashed it, it worked perfectly.