Installation failure

[gord campbell]

It's quite likely the GTX 550. The most likely solution is to use
nomodeset.

Press "e" on getting the Grub menu. Using the arrow keys, navigate to,
and delete, quiet and splash and type the word nomodeset in their place.
Press Ctrl-x to boot.



On Wed, 2012-05-09 at 02:09 +0000, ubuntu-ca-request at lists.ubuntu.com
wrote:
> Date: Tue, 8 May 2012 17:48:16 -0400
> From: Mark Ueki Mina <themarker0 at hotmail.com>
> To: <ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Subject: Installation failure
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> 
> So Installing the newest version of Ubuntu is stumbing me quite a bit.
> To first rule out CD drive and image corruption I did download a fresh
> copy of UNetbootin and it to no avail does nothing. I'm looking around
> for an image of 10.04 to see if it will install, not much hope. Ubuntu
> is currently installed on this machine but it does not boot, 10.10
> broke it. Parts are as listed below.
> Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550  @ 2.83GHz4.00 GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @
> 533MHzASUSTeK Computer INC. P5E3-WS-Pro1024MB GeForce GTX 550 Ti
> (ASUStek Computer Inc)977GB Seagate ST31000524AS ATA Device
> (SATA)977GB Western Digital WDC WD10EALS-00Z8A0 ATA Device (SATA)78GB
> Western Digital WDC WD800JD-22LSA0 ATA Device (SATA)   (Boot Drive and
> drive for *NixOptiarc DVD RW AD-7261S ATA DeviceScarlett 2i2
> USBCreative 1616
> 
> Anything there look like it could be a system breaker? Any Ideas? 
> 
>