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yeah the disk check up well... and i tried with both 32 and 64 versions... going to see how it do with the text only installer
 
Originally posted by: Pelu
hm.. nothing seems to work... this is so mess up...
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Could be something with your rig. Have you stress tested your overclock? (I'm assuming that with a rig like that you are overclocking.) Maybe reset your motherboard bios settings to default and try the install.

It seems very strange to me that your install would not work. Ubuntu installations are famously easy and bug-free.
 
Originally posted by: hurtstotalktoyou
Originally posted by: Pelu
hm.. nothing seems to work... this is so mess up...
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Could be something with your rig. Have you stress tested your overclock? (I'm assuming that with a rig like that you are overclocking.) Maybe reset your motherboard bios settings to default and try the install.

It seems very strange to me that your install would not work. Ubuntu installations are famously easy and bug-free.
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There are occasional hardware issues not related to overclocking, as blackangst1 has found, so it may be something else.

One thing that might help is to disconnect all usb devices except for mouse and keyboard until booted. If you still have problems try booting without the mouse and keyboard as well in the hopes you can narrow it down to something other than the mobo/cpu/gpu etc.
 
It's possible, I've never tried to get one working because spending money on a soundcard seems pretty pointless these days. It couldn't hurt to pull it out and see but I would imagine that it just wouldn't work, although if you have onboard sound that should be fine.
 
yeah i got onboard.. the problem is that it doesnt sound so cool with the effects of xfi...

I still with out understanding why the X-Fi is great in the sound but so crap in reliability lol....
 
ok the linux boot from the disk.. i think it was in the bios.. because i reset the bios and it boot.. but now i have other problem... i burn two disk one with 32 bit and other one with 64... but... i forgot to write down in each disk which one is which... and now i dunno how to recognize the 64 from the 32 one...
 
Probably, the 64-bit one will either be AMD64 or x86_64, I can't remember which monicher Ubuntu uses. But the 32-bit one will definitely be i386.
 
hm.. i think is am.. anyway.. any idea of how to break the harddisk in two... like two partitions with out screwing up my current installation of windows...
 
Originally posted by: Pelu
hm.. i think is am.. anyway.. any idea of how to break the harddisk in two... like two partitions with out screwing up my current installation of windows...
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Gparted is a great tool for this. The problem is, it's a Linux ap, and you can't run it from Windows.

But do not despair! You can download and burn a live CD, and boot from that CD to do all your partitioning.

Here's what you want to do...

1. download the gparted iso
2. burn the iso to a CD
3. boot from the gparted CD
4. use the gparted gui to resize your windows partition, leaving enough free space for ubuntu

PLEASE NOTE: you don't want to actually create a new partition; you just want to free up a bunch of unpartitioned space by resizing the windows partition

5. "apply" the changes you made
6. reboot into the ubuntu installer (i386)
7. when ubuntu asks you how to partition the drive, choose the "guided - use largest continuous free space" option

That's it!
 
do you really need 64bit? most of the apps out there arent configure for 64bit
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Actually in Linux most things are 64-bit already. Not that it really matters for most apps, but the only things that don't have 64-bit options right now are the closed things like flash and java plugins. Actually since Java is open now that should be fixed eventually.
 
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