Live CD not working

[Tee Jay Rosene]

I have a quick question regarding my desktop PC: why won't the live CD work?
I'm trying to see how 6.10 will work on my machine, but when I put the CD in
the drive, the Ubuntu splash screen looks all weird (sort of desaturated and
blotchy) and then everything just freezes as soon as the Ubuntu splash
screen becomes "normal" looking. When I boot back into XP, however, things
are peachy (well, relatively peachy, considering I'm running XP!)
Anyhow, I have a feeling this might be because I have a pretty high-tech ATI
graphics card, an after market add-on.
Is there a solution to this dilemma? Even more importantly, if there is a
solution, will said solution cause damage to the hardware?
A caveat: this is even before installing Ubuntu on the system!
Now I'm not at all flaming Ubuntu; I think it's great and I have
6.10running on a couple of older PCs without a hitch.
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