Ubuntu on my laptop

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NaughtyMonkey

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I am having problems installing Ubuntu on my laptop. The orange loading bar at the begining freezes and does nothing. I no there is a program or something like that that will scan your computer to say why a certain distro of linux won't install. (what hardware is conflicing) but I can not find that program :(

I am also having trouble putting vista on my laptop. Installs to a 100% and then gives me an error and then everything is deleted. I look at the partition and its completely empty. I don't get it lol. But xp home or xp pro work perfectly on my laptop.

Specs for it are in the sig.

-Thanks.
 
What kind of an error do you get on the windows install?

It could be a RAM problem... I've had that happen before with Ubuntu because of bad RAM... you could always try the memory test on the Ubuntu CD. Also you could try taking out one stick of ram and booting, then do that with the other stick, if it works with only one of the sticks of RAM your other stick may be bad... that method would be quicker than the memory test.
 
Well I'm going to dual boot xp and ubuntu like my desktop, there is no error message when installing but that first loading bar where the orange bar loads across and it goes across like 5 times then just stops, the same spot everytime. I no its not bad ram, because if it was bad ram then the xp wouldnt start right?
 
start it in safe install, see if it busts out any errors. Try downloading and older, more stable package of Ubuntu on the older hardware. Just like one version down and see if that makes a difference.
 
Well from experience I've found that generally Windows can be installed and sometimes even run for a while with bad RAM, but Linux sees the problem during install and will freeze up.
 
NaughtyMonkey said:
But when I write click on my computer, it says that I have 2 GBS installed, if it was bad ram, it wouldnt show up, right?
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Google search memtest x86, donwload the ISO, burn it, boot off of it and run it and let it run for at least an hour. Report back any errors it comes up with, if any at all.
 
tlarkin said:
Google search memtest x86, donwload the ISO, burn it, boot off of it and run it and let it run for at least an hour. Report back any errors it comes up with, if any at all.
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I think Ubuntu comes with memtest... it is the same memtest right? If so just use that. :cool:
 
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