Cannot Install on my new rig

Alephcat · Post by **Alephcat** » Wed Mar 28, 2007 12:07 pm

I suspect that you may be right about your graphics card since a quick googleing reveals it to be a "vista ready" card, thus it may work in a slightly different way to its predecessors, or it may simply just be too new. sorry for the lack of specific help but I am just about to go home from work, I will see if I can come up with anything better once I get home.

scorp123 · Post by **scorp123** » Wed Mar 28, 2007 12:40 pm

Alephcat wrote:I suspect that you may be right about your graphics card ...

And this assumption is based on what?! Since you appear to know how to use Google, why oh why didn't you just Google for the error message? You might have found this:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/li ... +bug/57502

So the graphics card clearly isn't the problem, Vista has nothing whatsoever to do with this.

greatgreenguru wrote: I have just purchased a new gaming rig and my intention was to have a small linux partition. ... It is a E6600 with 2 SATA 2 drives and an 8800GTS gpu.

Can you please check the technical specifications and tell us what SATA controller you have in that machine? Also: Can you please try any other Linux distro and see if the error appears again? We have to troubleshoot. It's either a hardware problem (meaning that NO Linux whatsoever will work), a temporary kernel problem (meaning that a newer distro with a newer Kernel version might work), a distribution related problem (meaning that only Ubuntu and Ubuntu-based distros such as Mint have this problem; others such as OpenSUSE, Fedora, Mandriva, Gentoo, etc. maybe don't have this problem) or only a Mint-related problem (meaning that maybe a newer version of Ubuntu such as the new 7.04 "Feisty" might work?)

Alephcat · Post by **Alephcat** » Wed Mar 28, 2007 4:21 pm

sorry I was tired and just about to leave work so I missed the middle post

scorp123 · Post by **scorp123** » Wed Mar 28, 2007 5:17 pm

Alephcat wrote:sorry I was tired and just about to leave work so I missed the middle post

We forgive you

scorp123 · Post by **scorp123** » Thu Mar 29, 2007 5:37 am

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Core_2_Duo_Support

" ... Foxconn P9657AA-8EKRS2H with Ubuntu Edgy. Random freezes. Edgy does not support motherboard integrated Marvell LAN card so using a Netgear PCI LAN card. Vanilla Edgy set-up (i.e. not using Nvidia provided drivers etc). Hardware works find under Windows XP. Had to disable APIC in BIOS to get Edgy installed otherwise random lockups during installation. Windows would not boot with APIC disabled, so re-enabled it after Edgy installed. ..."