ok my friend just gave me his dads old laptop and the only thing wrong with it is that windows is broken (doesn't this happen alot?). so i really would like another linux laptop because this one has a 2.8 GHs processor instead of a 1.6 GHs one. but ok down to the problem.

Every time i try to install it i get the same screen or a blank screen

the says:

[ 26.918828] process swapper (pid: 0, ti=c03d2000 task=c03a1440 task.ti=c03d2000)
[ 26.918859] stack: 00000010 000000d0 cbfed2e4 000000d0 cbfef4c0 cbfef4c0 cbfef4c0 cbfed2c0 00000000
[ 26.919087] 00000000 00000040 00000008 00000008 00000001 000e0349 00000246 cbfef4c0
[ 26.919314] 000000d0 cbfefdc0 c01731f5 00000060 baadf00d 01020304 c017338f 00000000
[ 26.919542] call trace:
[ 26.919591] [<c01731f5>] _kmalloc+0x95/0xa0
[ 26.919642] [<c017338f>] alloc_arraycache+0x1f/0x50
[ 26.919702] [<c0173520>] do_tune_cpucache+0x160/0x280
[ 26.919761] [<c0173856>] enable_cpucache+0x56/0x90
[ 26.919819] [<c0173d18>] kmem_cache_create+0x488/0x520
[ 26.919877] [<c03e9821>] fork_init+0x31/0xb0
[ 26.919941] [<c03d771e>] start_kernel+0x28e/0x420
[ 26.920005] [<c03d7230>] unknown_bootoption+0x0/0x260
[ 26.920064] =======================
[ 26.920096] code: 43 14 00 00 00 00 8b 04 24 85 c0 74 0a 51 52 ff 15 a8 53 3a c0 5a 59 8b 44 24 08 e8 e6 b5 17 00 8d 45 10 8b 50 04 89 03 89 58 04 <89> 1a 89 53 04 8b 74 24 10 8b




sorry now a new problem just happened with my new laptop. now it won't turn on at all
but when i get that fixed i'll post the rest of the screen that it shows


P.S. any suggestions on how to fix this laptop would be nice. all that it is is that its power button isn't working i can still find evidence that the bios is still intact so i'm pretty sure that means that i can get it to work again

It never happened to me.

its happened to me about 11 times and always at the worst possible time