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I recently installed a new motherboard and I had to use Ubuntu (a Linux CD OS) just to get my monitor to come on, I have narrowed the problem down to this – when my hard drives are installed (either one or both of them) my computer acts like it’s booting but the monitor never switches on.
The reason for the new MoBo was a bad power supply, could this have ruined my two HD’s and nothing else?
My jumpers are correct, my cables are too, my power supply and MoBo work fine with Ubuntu, but the hard drive wont boot the PC, nor will the PC work with the HD hooked up.

I have a Pentium !!! 1.13 Ghz with 384 mb of ram intel motherboard pc is 3 years old. I tried to install it from the live cd but it stoped the installation when i reached 51% the next time it stoped at 50% and so on. I think the cd rom is not installing it well and it heat up very quikly when I install ubuntu but for other operations it works well such as to installing windows XP.
can i copy the setup to a 1 Gb usb drive and boot it as primary and install ubuntu to my pc.

I’m thinking of getting a new desktop computer, but I have NO idea which processor to pick. I Don’t do gaming, I use the internet all the time, e-mail, downloads, streaming radio and tv/video, Cds, DVDs, Word Processing, research journals, online databases etc. Often have 25 to 30 tabs open in 2 different browsers. My concern is performance, and that the amount I pick will last me through many OS upgrades, and remain relevant.

I want the OS to work with the processor, which is important. (There will be 4 Hard Drives of 1.5 TB each, they will be openSuse (linux), ubuntu (linux), PCBSD (BSD), and openSolaris (Solaris)

For memory I have a choice of 512MB, 1GB, 2GB, 4GB, or 8GB (All 800 Mhz)

For Processor I can choose:
(Intel)
Celeron — Dual Core, (2.8 GHz) or D (3.2 GHz)
Pentium — 4, (3.0 or 3.2 GHz), or D Dual Core, (2.8 or 3.0 or 3.2 GHz)
Core 2 Duo — (2.13 or 2.66 or 3.0 or 3.16GHz
Core 2 Quad — (2.33 or 2.4 or 2.5 or 2.66 or 2.83GHz)
Core 2 Extreme Quad — (2.66 or 3.0 GHz)

or (AMD)
Phenom Quad Core 2.2GHz

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* As a bonus, I know nothing about choosing motherboards:
4 options:
Socket 775 Core2Duo 133FSB
Intel Core2Quad BLKDG33FBC DDR2-800
Phenom X4/X2 GeForce 7050/DDR2
Intel Core2Quad Extreme S975XBX DDR2-800 no-video
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*Help, what do all these options mean? How do I pick the best processor, motherboard, and amount of memory? Which ones should I avoid? Does 64bit play a role here? AMD vs Intel?

* Sorry if this is too much for one question

I’d like to build a nice, but cheap Linux system. I’m looking for an ATX motherboard, and CPU recommendations.

Right now, I’m running Mandriva 2009 on my laptop, but I’d like to be able to run any distribution on this new system.

I have tried to install Ubuntu -but I cancel the installation because I was not sure what I should do. I have 1 x 80gb Harddisk. My motherboard split it to 3 (C,D,E) because it was not able to handle it. Thats ok. So I try install Ubuntu on drive D, but during the installation I get an error who says. Can’t install because can’t find the root. !!
I have XP on my C drive, and I want to keep that also, but what it mean with the message?
I already come to the point where I decide what partition. Its after the installation on the partition I get the error