Cant get zorin 6 to install

I have 2 systems. I have an AMD fx4100 with 2x2gig of ram, asrock 880GM-LE FX motherboard and a 320 Gig harddrive. I downloaded the basic 64 bit file and burned it on a DVD. It installed just fine on this system. My problem is with my AMD 8150, asrock 990FX Extreme 4 motherboard, with 2x4Gig of ram, and 2x2TB Harddrives. I used the same DVD on this system. It boots and asks to install of boot from the cd. If I choose to install direct it begins to copy files for about 75 seconds (I timed it). Then the blue z screen with the spinning circles just stops and the system locks up. If I try to boot from the DVD it read the disk for about 75 seconds and just stops as well. I also transfered the ISO file to a USB drive. It boots to main menu but no matter what I choose it locks up immediately! I know the DVD and ISO files are good they worked on the other computer. I think it might be ther Motherboard or the bios settings but I have no clue. Any help would be great.

Hi,

have you tried "nomodeset" ??:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1613132

Have you booted in safe graphics mode which is one of the options in the boot menu??.

Let us know how you get on.

Regards Wolfman

THANX WOLFMAN. i forgot to mention I have an nvidia 210 graphics card. I used the F6 option and had to turn off the nomodset, noapic, no lapic, and acpi=off to get ubuntu 12.10 to intall. oh, the 2x2tb haddrives are not raid. However, in the process of installing ubunto I had to create a boot partition, a swap partition, and an ubunto partition. i was hopeing to preserve windows vista on the machine but ubunto destroyed windows vista. everythin important was on the other drive thankfully.

now i downloaded the nvidia linux 64 drivers as a *.run file. How do I install the drivers? I right clicked and changed the properties in "permission" tab to 'allow executing file as program". the program ran in "terminal mode" and nvidia said must be run as root???

also I have a belkin wireles pci card. How do i install drivers for it too???

oh and thankx everyone for the help

Hi,

see this guide about Nvidia cards, you can add the Nvidia PPA and save yourself a major headache by using the terminal to install the Nvidia drivers!!!!.

viewtopic.php?f=6&t=2490

Vista is no longer supported anyway; which is no great lose to mankind!!.

Regards Wolfman

ubuntu no longer boots up any more after installing nvidia drivers. i am going to try using swarfendor437's "multisystem". if that doesn't work....well F__K IT!!! Windows vista is going back on untill I get and AMD Graphics card. I kind of want one anyway. I've got zorin on my other system I'll use it instead.

thankx for the help
I have had 0 linux experiance untill now

Hi Shawn,

if you haven't already erased Linux, you can try to recover the system using the "dpkg" update method, see this guide in the section "Broken Files":

viewtopic.php?f=6&t=2247

Then reboot afterwards using "Ctrl + Alt + Del".

Regards Wolfman