starting problems

[Chris Peterman]

On Wednesday 08 March 2006 09:31, Natalie Erin wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am hoping that maybe you can help me with my problem.  I have recently
> installed a version of Ubuntu 5.10 and am having a problem whenever it
> starts up.  It continually freezes right after it loads the GUI.  I am
> fairly new to Ubuntu and Linux, so I need some pretty detailed help to
> solve this problem.  Here are my computer specs, in the hope that this
> will help:
>
> AMD 3400 (2.4 GhZ) Processor
> 1 GB RAM
> Nvidia NForce 3 Motherboard
> ATI Radeon 9800 Pro Video Card
> 250 GB SATA Hard Drive (running 4.10)
> 160 GB SATA Hard Drive (supposed to be running 5.10)
>
> I have tried a memtest and have passed all the tests, also, it freezes
> so completely that I cannot even hit CTRL+ALT+F! to access a terminal.
> Any help that can be provided would be much appreciated.
>
> Natalie Erin

Are you able to get to a console with Recovery Mode? (Hit ESC when you see 
"GRUB Loading" and pick the Recovery Mode 
-- 
~ Chris "Kyral" Peterman
Computer Science Undergraduate
Clarkson University
Associate Member of the Free Software Foundation
Ubuntu Member
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