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Linux help?

Posted on January 25, 2012 by admin| 8 Comments

Hey everyone. I’m having an issue while trying to boot off the live cd I downloaded and burned. I am able to run it on my desktop just fine but when I try to load it on my laptop my screen turns weird. What will happen when I boot is: the ubuntu welcome screen comes up asking me what I would like to do. I choose start ubuntu and hit enter and then a quick message flashes on the top that says “bios bug #81 found” after that the OS starts initializing and during all the system checks I notice another error that reads “error micro code: bcm43xx_microcode5.fw” After that a black grid comes up on the screen and covers the entire screen while a blue/grey blob glows and gets really bright and then slowly fades until the screen is completely blank. Has anyone had this problem or know how I can fix it? Any help is greatly appreciated and the specs on my laptop are on this link:

http://reviews.cnet.com/laptops/hp-c…5.html?tag=sub

Thanks.

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On an empty Laptop: Why does my Ubuntu Live CD stop at the loading screen?

Posted on December 29, 2011 by admin| 1 Comment

So I just got a new Pentium M Dual Core laptop (it’s a 32-bit system, but I forgot the clock speed) with 1GB of RAM and 80 GB of harddisk space.

I tried to install Ubuntu 7.10 and 7.04 using the Live CD method (which was succesful when I install it on my Pentium D desktop).

But with both versions, after the boot menu and selecting “Install from Live CD”, the progress bar just stop at the middle in the boot screen.

Strange thing is, when I tried the so-called Linux Rescue Disc that came with the laptop, the Live CD goes fine without a glitch.

But I don’t want to install that crappy Linux, I want my UBUNTU!

Can anybody help me to get the Live CD works?
Is there any other way to install Ubuntu 7.04/7.10 besides using the Live CD mode?

Thanks/

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Did Ubuntu/LInux overwrite Vista?

Posted on December 25, 2011 by admin| 2 Comments

I got a live cd of Ubuntu and decided to install it. When I went to restart my computer into Vista, it won’t start. All I see is the black screen with the _ on it in the top right corner. Did Ubuntu delete vista? how can I fix this?
vista came on my laptop, i don’t have a cd.
I’m running the repair now, thanks. i’ll let you know if it works.

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What version of linux do u recommend for newbies?

Posted on December 15, 2011 by admin| 4 Comments

I’m tired of OS X 10.4.10 which crash all the time ,slow and unstable – just like Windows PC. I wanted to port to Linux ,I tried Ubuntu but it failed to boot Live CD (EE: no screen blabla, something with the xorg.conf)
So where to start?

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toshiba M105-3041?

Posted on November 6, 2011 by admin| 1 Comment

I have a Toshiba M105-3041, which has 512mb of memory, 80gb hard drive, Intel Centrino, and it is not booting up…I am a computer expert myself, and I have beating my head away trying to figure this out, but I keep thinking that it could be something else. I get a blue screen when booting up Vista Basic, so what I did was I pressed f8 and told the pc to start up and not restart after it fails, the blue screen read, that it was not able to write to the memory because of an I/O error. This is my diagnosis, I think that it is the memory stick, I dont think its the right kind, I mean I ran a live cd of linux and it worked perfectly with no flaws, when I opened the memory bay, it had no memory, so I got some memory from another laptop that had roughly the same speed and that was very similar and used that, but it will not boot up windows xp or vista. What do you think is wrong? I think that its because its the wrong memory.

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