On May 1, 2012 12:10 AM, "David Smith" <<a href="mailto:Dave@p3computers.com">Dave@p3computers.com</a>> wrote: > > At the risk of someone having had a similar problem, I'm struggling to install Ubuntu on my desktop. My netbook accepted Xubuntu absolutely fine, and I am getting to grips it. My desktop however won't accept Ubuntu x86. > > I have tried with a CDROM and unetbootin, with the live CD and with the alternative installler. The best I have got is for it to install using the alternative, but not boot up -- it just hangs indefinitely after GRUB. > > Intel E7300 CPU > 3GB RAM > ECS GF7050VT-M5 motherboard > Nvidia 1GB 550 Ti (Asus) > SATA 0 is 1TB Seagate NTFS Windows 7 x64 > SATA 1 is 160GB Maxtor NTFS data (2x 80GB partitions for some reason). > SATA 3 is TSST DVDRW > IDE Primary Master is EXT4 Ubuntu, Linux swap and GRUB loader. The only thing I have seen like this is where a friend had a machine that done a similar thing, he also had some random freeze ups on the Windows side, it turned out too be the graphics card, luckily he had a VGA output on three mother board so we're just pulled the graphics card and it worked ok. It's a long shot but worth a try if you can do this >