first of all welcome to linux and ubuntu. try checking the nvidia website to see if they have some drivers for the card. secondly check out the knoppix and ubuntu sites to see if you can disable sopme option before booting. <div>On 7/4/05, DanM <<a href="mailto:micudan@gmail.com">micudan@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> First of all I am very new in Linux world and my English is not very good so … please be kind with me! I have a computer with the following configuration: CPU INTEL Pentium 4/3 GHz MB ASRock P4I65GV/ video on board Intel 82865G 512 MB DDRAM PC3200 HDD SATA 120 GB 7200 RPM DVD-ROM TOSHIBA CR-RW TEAC MODEM Intel 536EP, internal First time when I have installed Linux was Suse 9.1 Pro. It went smoothly, no problems at all (I even managed to properly install the modem and navigate on Internet). Then I bought a SPARKLE GeFORCE FX5500/350 MHz RAMDAC 128 MB DDR video card and the problem began. The system is freezing during boot. I erased Suse Linux 9.1 Pro and put Mandriva 10.1 instead but the same problem occurred. I even try with KNOPPIX 3.7 PRO. When I choose to boot with kernel 2.6 freeze but when I boot with kernel 2.4 the system boots well, but video card is not recognized (manufacturer NVIDIA type unknown … ). With Ubuntu Live the boot process goes well until * Starting hotplug subsystem …and freeze. Please help me to install Ubuntu Linux on my computer (I wonder why Linux doesn't recognize all the hardware with generic drives and then let the user to install the right ones to avoid problems like this. I have WindowsXP SP2 on other partition and is going fine). Thank you for your help! Dan Micu -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com"> ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a href="http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users">http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </blockquote></div>