Ubuntu freezes on load and caps lock flashes
ubuntu freezes when it is almost to 3 bars of loading indicator. caps lock flashes after it freezes, and hard drive activity light shows no activity. This happens when booting off the livecd tryout mode, or the normal install option with the cd. ubuntu installed fine through the alternate install disc (text only), but the first time it booted, same problem.
ive used like 4 different cds from different mirrors, burned on different computers with lowest burn speed to the same result. the cd is not faulty.
tried booting text only through the "recovery" mode, or by removing "quiet" and "splash" from boot options, but it feezes and results in the error: Kernel Panic - not syncing: Aiee, killing interrupt handler!
i have run the built in memtest in the bios which passed, but when i ran the ubuntu memtest it churned along steadily and after 13 hours was only to 7% (is this normal?). i don't have the patience to leave my laptop on for a week..
from online forum searches i tried the adding the options "noapic" "acpi=off" and "nolapic" to the boot parameters, but did not help
i installed openSUSE on this machine, and it froze too, unless i selected the "safe kernel mode" from the install dvd, after which in went fine.
thanks,
i am running:
presario cq50-110us
3 gigs ram
nvidia 8100m gpu
hardy hardin 8.04 (not exactly "running" yet)
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