Ubuntu Installation :: 9.10 Not Booting - Dell Dimension 8300
Jan 13, 2010
I'm new to Linux, last 6 months, and am trying to install it on my tower, but for some reason after successfully going through the installation process, it will not boot. I'm using ubuntu in a virtual box on my laptop just fine, I've had not problems at all, this really has me stumped since it seemed so easy on my laptop.I get this message after the installation has finished and the computer has to restart, the cd tray opens, I remove the ubuntu cd I burned, and I get this message:
Strike F1 to retry, Strike F2 to enter setup I put the CD back in, and then selected "Boot from Hard Disc", and then get a "Booting from local disk..." and the cursor blinking below, but after 2 minutes or so, I get the following error:
isolinux: Disk error 80, AX=0201, drive 80
Before installing Ubuntu, I did the hard drive test just to be sure, and there were no problems, it said everything was good to go.
Some specs:
Dell Dimension 8300
20GB Hard Drive (IDE, jumpers set to factory positions, and the IDE 1 cable plugged in)
1 GB Ram
Pentium 4 w/ Hyper-Threading
I just installed 10.04 on a Dell Dimension T7500. I first set up linux partitions following first FAT16 (Dell Utilities) and second FAT32 (labeled OS) partitions. The installer suggested there was no OS when I was installing Ubuntu 10.04. After restart I see that the first option in boot order is "Onboard or USB CDROM drive". But Ubuntu never booted. I then changed boot order to first look in ID00 LUN0 ATA. Same thing..no boot of Ubuntu. On the other machines on which I've installed Ubuntu I have dual boot with Windows and have GRUB installed. So....how best to set this up and find out if I have a workable OS?
i just installed lucid on my 8300 everything was fine on karmic but now it randomly freezes up but i can still use the mouse!? i thought it might of been firefox or somthing but then i thought it might be my cpu seeing how its a pin moded celeron d @ 3.8ghz... cpu useage isnt high at all but it still gets hot could that be a problem? btw the full specs are celly d 3.8, wd80gb wd40gb, 1gb ddr 400, and radeon 9500pro it dual boots xp wich doesnt freeze at all
I have a Dimension 3000 with 2GB RAM, a 500 GB disk with two, 250 GB partitions, one for XP and one for Linux. The machine has a 1 GB Ethernet expansion card to replace the 10/100 MB integrated Ethernet card. The BIOS was upgraded to A03, the latest version. My initial attempt to boot the Live CD of Kubuntu 10.04.2 32-bit desktop left me with a blank screen, the CD-ROM drive stopped and the hard disk light on. I used the power button reset to re-gain control of the machine. On the next try, I removed the "quiet splash --" from the end of the boot options, and the machine got much further, but did much complaining about sr0 which I believe is a reference to a software RAM drive.
I went through the BIOS setup screen (hit F2 on boot to access) and under "Integrated devices:Network Interface controller" I turned off the built in network interface since the machine is using the plug-in card mentioned above. I also put the floppy disk drive at the end of the "Boot sequence" parameter. I rebooted again with the same deletion of the "quiet splash --" from the end of the boot options and the boot took me to the desktop!
Alas, when I tried to install 10.04.2 from the desktop, the installation died at the 15% point with "[Errno 5] Input/output error". The included explanation pointed at problems with either the hard drive (brand new in my case) or the CD-ROM drive or the CD itself. I'm too tired right now to pursue this further, but I will try burning a new CD at a lower speed as suggested by the error's help information.
I'm also still concerned about the earlier complaints about sr0. It is conceivable that the problem with copying the files to the hard disk could relate to problems with a RAM buffer that is used in the copying process. I mention this to remind myself to pursue that as a possible culprit if re-burning the CD doesn't help.
I'm attempting to install Natty Narwhal Desktop 32-bit on my Dell Dimension 4700. I get to the screen with various options (Install Ubuntu, Test Memory, etc.) but on choosing boot from disk or install, I just get a black screen. Any ideas what might be the problem? I'm don't have much experience with Ubuntu, so a simple explanation would be preferred.
I just installed debian-6.0.1a-i386-netinst yesterday on my Dell Dimension 4100. I have a serial keyboard and mouse, which both worked fine during the install and the keyboard allowed me to enter the correct passphrase. After I enter the passphrase the PC continues to boot up, and it gets to a black screen with small fuzzy/distorted "DELL" logo's on the top part of the screen going from left to right.
What is wrong with my PC? What can I do to troubleshoot this?
I really would like to get debian up and running on this desktop
When I try to install on a Dell Dimension 8110, After I hit enter to install, very small green text appears up top that says "undefined video mode" than a number that I can't make out, and another line that says something about hitting <SPACE> to continue. However, hitting space does nothing and the installation hangs indefinitely.
I'm a basic ubuntu user, and I enjoy it. I want to install ubuntu and use it for gaming on an old computer. I have been told that wine doesn't do great with games, but then a friend of mine showed me that with a good processor and gfx card and RAM, it will do. So here's the thing: this computer i want to work with, its a dell dimension l500r bought in 2000 and came with win98. my parents don't even care about it any more, and they gave me full permission to kill it if I want.
so, I decided to upgrade it. I know I will need to upgrade RAM, Hard drive, GFX, and processor. Anyone know the specs on this computer, and do you have any other suggestions in terms of parts? (for example, it has a small fan that I'm pretty sure is the heat sink for the processor. Should I add a fan?). I will NOT install windows if I have to. I'm not paying money for an OS that costs more than I can afford to maintain. EDIT: forgot to mention that I have figured out the specs on my RAM and have a USB external hard drive I can attach later. big things are specs for GFX card and processor.
I have an old Dell Dimension 2400 running Windows XP.I want to dual boot a Linux Distro on this PC. It has a Celeron Processor (2.60Ghz, 400 fsb. 256 cache) Hard Drive is 40GB IDE Installed Ram is 256Mb (Though I am in the process of maxing this to 2Gb). I have 10 GB Free space. I want to run a Linux Distro on this space.
I picked up the computer for free (Dell P4 with no HD), stuck in a hard drive I had laying around and installed Ubuntu Studio 10.04 yesterday. I am completely clueless about how to do anything with Linux. I put in a Zyxel g-360 wireless pci card, and found the ACX111 driver online. I found the wiki here: [URL] Are those installation instructions? I can't understand what it says. I have the Zyxel installation disk for Windows XP if that helps.
I have working speakers that I am trying to attach to my Ubuntu Dell computer. It's an older computer, and only has 512 ram, and a 20 gig hard drive right now. When I hooked up the speakers, and everything and try to play a ..... music video, the music plays at a very sped-up rate. The speakers are Altec Lansing speakers. I have tried to find the answer to this problem with no luck. Do I need to do any coding in the terminal? Or is there another problem?
I did it as the tutorial on the Ubuntu website showed and I can get it to boot from a Live CD, but on my computer, different things are shown than in the tutorial when I attempt to actually install it. I am not prompted to enter my location or my keyboard layout, and my screen for the allocation of the hard drive is different. Please help me. I am not that tech-savvy and do not want to mess my computer up.@ corps - The Live CD version gives me the option of actually installing it directly from the Live CD.
i installed debian squeeze on a dell dimenson 3000 and the sound isn't working here is the specifications of the [URL] the Alsa preferences brings up the device as an Intel ICH5
and the documentation for the machine comes out as AC97, Sound Blaster Emulation, ADI 1980 audio controller with 2.1 implementation
what kind of driver, firmware, modules needs to be installed in order for the sound to work properly
I am trying to set up a somewhat older Dell as a test box. I installed Fedora 13 on it. When I attempt to shut down the system, it reboots and powers back on. I have attempted shutdown using the GUI, and variations of shutdown, init and halt. All of these result in the PC powering back on. The only way for me to power off the system is to press and hold the power button.
Something about my sound setup does not agree with Linux. I couldn't get sound on Puppy Linux and I can't get sound with Ubuntu either. I'm trying to use speakers through the headphone jack at the front of the tower (system unit, whatever you call the thing that houses the motherboard/ CD Drive etc.)
I tried the basic sound troubleshooting from this guide: [URL]..Since I still have the links up from it, I might as well share them with you. 1. This is the ALSA Information Script tailored to my settings: [URL]..
2. This is the ALSA Driver Configuration Guide. Scroll down to Line 587 for my card ( Module snd-ens1371):[URL]..
I would like recommendations for a USB wireless device to get Internet on a Dell Dimension 2400. It is an old computer but, Ubuntu 10.4 is running like a really fast steam train - like nothing will stop it. Hooray for Ubuntu - XP has been dumped from this machine when I inherited it as it was becoming bloated and inevitably slow (not that I wanted to keep it any way). So I only need a good easy to install wireless USB device for Internet connection. I bought a Realtek RT2070 chipset device without reading into the dos and don'ts. My own fault really as I have been spoilt with everything 'just working' with my laptop and Ultimate Edition Linux.
I have tried a few different driver versions for this thing and it simply won't see the device properly. I can get a @Connection Established' message with a couple of the drivers but, I never actually get connected. I have tried the Windows Wireless Drivers and although they all install I get the 'No Hardware Detected' next to the driver name every time. Something definitely not working somewhere.
So I am giving up with this one and hoping I can find one that people know works well and easily installed. Preferrably with a .deb file (asking a bit much I know but, in this day and age I expect it). After all the other Operating Systems have their own executables that work for all installations of everything. Oh, how I wish I had the time and know-how to do this for all peripherals for Linux. It would be like being in seventh heaven for everyone. No more compiling, or make commands just download and install...
I was amazed to see four simultaneous video feeds running in VideoLan the other day through Ultimate Edition on a Dell Studio 1537. I think I could have just kept opening and running the videos. They had no dropped frames at all - amazing when I considered the same day what crap Windows 7 was to stutter trying to play a CD with music.
I have a fresh install of Kubuntu on an old Dell Dimension 2400 that seems to be working perfectly except for the network connection. I have a wired network connection to a linksys router connected to a cable modem. This connection works on other devices.
Code: ifconfig eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0b:db:b6:cf:09
I've seen a bit about the display being frozen on intel integrated displays, but I do not see the answer anywhere. Does anyone know how to fix this problem: Ubuntu 9.10 boots and runs just fine for 10, 20 or even 30 minutes performing variety of tasks. Then, without warning the display is frozen. The mouse can move the pointer just fine, but I cannot interact with the desktop and the machine must be shutdown by holding the power button.
I've observed this while playing a Kpatience game, general surfing of the internet, and view ..... videos. One time it happened when the display powers off after being idle, but this is not consistently the case. I have tried to make the freeze happen, but am unable to do so (so it seems, anyway). What is happening here? Here are the details of my system:
I have an old Dell Dimension 3000 Desktop computer which used to run Windows XP but I installed Linux Ubuntu 10.04 32-bit onto it. It has a pentium 4 2.8Ghz, 1GB of ram(I think), a 120GB HDD...etc. Anyway, so when I install Ubuntu I try to install the graphics drivers for it. I go to intels website. There were two drivers available for Linux for my adapter:
the i915graphics and a intelgraphics driver. Both were tar.gz. When I try to install them, it can't for some reason. I tried "sudo sh" in terminal, I tried extracting the package and executing it...etc. Nothing works. It does give me a message in terminal though.
I'm running Ubuntu 10.04 on a Dell Dimension 4600 and the sound quality isn't very good. I loaded VirtualBox and installed WinXP on it. If I play the same ..... video on Ubuntu and then on the Vbox WinXP machine the difference is startling. It sounds beautiful on the WinXP machine. Is there any way to improve the sound quality on Ubuntu? When I play the video (any video) on Ubuntu there is a lot of static noise to contend with.
I'm thinking of setting up an old desktop (Dell Dimension 4300/512mb RAM/20g&80g hdd) as a media/file server and using Slackware 13 for it. I'm completely new to doing anything server-wise,it of background: I'm running current versions of Zenwalk and Vector on two different laptops, with the Zenwalk one multi-booting Vista and Ubuntu. The desktop in question is running XP and Zenwalk. I have DSL hooked up to a Linksys WRT (running dd-wrt firmware) for network. I'm not a noob, just not in my comfort zone. My goal is, in addition to setting up the server, to get more hands under the hood (so to speak) on improving my linux skills. It was a toss up between Slack and CentOS, and being very familiar with Slack-based systems, I'm going that route.
First time user of Ubuntu and first post on this forum. So i installed Ubuntu on an external hard drive, it took me a couple days. I followed the web sights direction and when i saw the option for windows or Ubuntu, clicked Ubuntu and that brought me to this:
GNU GRUB Version 1.98+2010...
Minimal BASH-like line editing is suported. For the first word, TAB list possible command completion. Anywhere else TAB list possible device or file completions.
GRUB>
No tricksters Im having a profetional check this stuff before i use any of it
I have got Windows XP Pro installed in my Laptop. It had 2 partitions. In C drive i have got Windows XP.Installed UBUNTU in E Drive. It did partiion E drive futher to install it. Had the GRUB RESCUE prompt initially. But after running the following got into the next problem.
Grub reinstall fix: Boot Ubuntu live CD. Then run sudo mount /dev/sdf5 /mnt
I love openSUSE (using 11.2). I have it installed on a Dell Dimension 2400 (2.4G Celeron CPU, 2G RAM), but I have a huge problem. It will randomly freeze during operation. I'll be able to move the pointer with the mouse but unable to click anything and I have to hold the power button down to shut it down and restart. The problem seems independent of the program I am using or what I am doing with the machine. I have not been able to recreate the problem. One more detail. The same problem occured when I had Ubuntu 9.10 installed on the same machine
i have tons of computers running and my best one cant play the oldest games. My old P3 can play these games and this computer cant.
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So basically a 2GHz machine with 2Gigs of ram and a Geforce 8300. I'm running Ubuntu 9.04 (jaunty i think ?). Anyway all of the basic games dont work well, they are choppy and slow. I put them in the lowest resolution just for them to be playable. It does not make any sense to me I have the latest version of the nvidia drivers running (I used ./NVI... --update)
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This program is used to configure the NVIDIA Linux graphics driver. Copyright (C) 2004 - 2010 NVIDIA Corporation. The only thing I can think of is a crappy video card ? but still i should be able to run these old games.
This was originally posted on the Ubuntu forum, but someone suggested it might be a hardware problem, so I've re-posted (and updated) here: Quote: Originally Posted by Girts My shiny new Dell has developed a booting problem over the last few weeks. The Dell splash comes on for up to 10 seconds, screen turns Ubuntu purple for up to 20 secs, then 'no signal' message is displayed by monitor and screen goes black. Hard drive light goes off, mouse and keyboard don't respond.
When the Dell engineer came to replace a suspected failing hard drive, he realised the noise was coming from the fan on the graphics card (ATI Radeon HD6670). I mentioned the PC was reluctant to boot first time, so he replaced the whole graphics card. However, the PC is still intermittently reluctant to boot first time (3 tries a few days ago, but OK since).
Before I call Dell again, I want to be sure it's actually their problem and not a Ubuntu/Linux thing! I'm not fluent in Linux, but has anyone got any thoughts on this?
When I boot from the CD, it starts to boot and then continously repeats:
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Initializing gfx code... boot: gfxboot:
It stops on boot for about 10 seconds each time then gfxboot for not even a second before the cycle continues. I have tried more than one CD, so I don't think that is the issue. It even did the exact same thing when I tried it on PCLOS 2010.10. Both versions I tried were KDE. trying to figure out how to get past this.
