Install Issues

[Alan Pope]

On 1 August 2011 10:36, Michael Haney <thezorch at gmail.com> wrote:
> It has an AMD Athlon 64x2 4800+ CPU
> 2GB of RAM
> Two 16x PCI-E Nvidia Geforce 7800 GTX cards in SLI-Mode
> An Audigy sound card.

All the above should be fine if in working order.

> Two 100GB hard drives in hardware RAID mode.
>

This would worry me a bit. Chances are it's FakeRAID or DMRaid not
"real" hardware RAID. I'd avoid like the plague. Dual booting using
FakeRAID-setup disks is a recipe for failure.

http://www.smop.co.uk/blog/index.php/2007/04/01/fakeraid-avoid/

As a good friend of mine says "Friends don't let friends use FakeRAID".


> I get errors about the CPU when the installer tries to start. One of
> the errors is No Human Readable MCE data, or something or other.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_Check_Exception

"The error usually occurs due to failure or overstressing of hardware
components where the error cannot be more specifically identified with
a different error message"

> I want to dual boot
> Ubuntu and Windows.

That's going to be hard to do reliably with FakeRAID installed.

Other options include:-

1) Add another disk and put Ubuntu on that, leaving the Windows
install well alone.
2) Wipe both disks and reinstall XP on one, Ubuntu on the other.

Al.