The installation hangs at the cursor (upper left of screen) after the Linux Mint 13 splash screen. I can't install it or get anything else up. No typical choice menu (run mint 13, run in safe mode, mem test, etc.) like I'm used to seeing.

This new system is an ASRock P67 EXTREME4 GEN3 motherboard with i5-3350P Ivy Bridge, G.SKILL DDR3 1600 F3-12800CL9D-8GBXL, EVGA GeForce GTX 560 SE 1024MB GDDR5 graphics card. Motherboard's BIOS is AMI and new enough to support Ivy. Video is via HDMI to a 1080p, 1920 X 1080, 16:9, 60Hz, 5ms Viewsonic VT2405LED 24" HDTV for a monitor. PSU is PC Power and Cooling Silencer Mk II 750W. It's connected to the LAN - no wireless. Keyboard is a vanilla Microsoft PS/2 unit and I'm using a Logitech MX518 mouse. Everything posts OK and the only tweaking I found to do was adjust the chassis fans to a lower speed. No overclocking, as I think this thing should be plenty fast as is.

I tried an istall on a similar setup not long ago. Same model CPU, a Z77 mobo, GTX 650, DVI hookup to an older 19-in. NEC monitor. I had to use wireless - which worked - because the Atheros LAN chip isn't supported in Mint 13's Linux kernel (yet). This is newer hardware so I'd guess if the same Mint 13 DVD would work on this system then it should handle the hardware on this P67/Ivy set-up.

Anyone have a clue? I'm clueless why this thing won't boot up the Mint 13 MATE 64 bit live DVD.

Test download of the iso against md5.
Burn the iso at the slowest speed on best quality dvd-r.


See if you can get any cd or dvd to boot, if so then start with memtest for a few days.

By not waiting for the auto boot (hitting <Enter>) I got to the menu and selected "compatibility mode". Yea, I had a screen and dis an install.

I saw people had issues with the nVidia driver, not getting a boot after install. I thought I might get the proprietary driver for the video installed right off. But it detected no proprietary driver - first time I saw that on an Ubuntu or Mint install with a nVidia GPU in the system!

Now I get a blank, black screen when I try to fire up the system.

I'm going to try a fresh install, this time trying something I found on "unixmen":

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nvidia-current nvidia-settings

I'll post a reply to this thread if it works or not. Right now my head hurts, but I think there's light at the end of this tunnel.

BTW - It's not the media. I was getting the same problem using a flash stick to install from.