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System

asininity wrote: »

Cant mind what F button it is might be F4 on the boot screen but theres one that says safe graphics. Try that.

Right tried that still no good, Is there somewhere I can find out exactly where it stops? Like rather than showing a splash screen show like a command screen?

asininity

When its starting up press Alt + F1 and you should see whats happening behind scenes.

Did you try both of the things I suggested?

System

Yes irqpoll does nothing either.

S0litaire

using Ubuntu when you get to the Boot menu press f6 and removethe words "Quiet" and "Splash".
Basically:
"Quiet" tells it not to display the boot process (so when you remove it you should see text running up the screen)
"Splash" is the graphical loading screen, with that gone you should see exactly where it freezes..
Also try and run the "Check the CD for errors" and see what you get. might be a iffy Optical drive or media (if they were burned on the same make of disk.

S0litaire

if the above don't work and if your laptop supports booting from USB. you can copy the LiveCD on a USB stick (any 1Gb stick will do!) their are a few programs around that will take the ISO and stick it onto a USB stick and make it bootable.

try this Install Ubuntu in USB Stick using Windows

System

This is the screen where it freezes.

S0litaire

Was going to suggest you jump onto the UbuntuForums.org and ask

But just seen your post there!
They will sort it out!

asininity

It does look like an IRQ or PCI problem. You could try "irqfixup".You might want to try "biosirq". These are kernel options for unfriendly hardware.

System

I'm running it in VMWare, runs fine I must say.

Bob63

nirelandguy wrote: »

I'm running it in VMWare, runs fine I must say.

It will do because the virtual machines emulates different hardware to the system's real hardware.

You may want to take a look at VirtualBox, a free version of VMWare. It can even reuse the VMware virtual disk image. Install VirtualBox, create a new virtual machine, then in the disk manager point to your VMware disk image.