I've just built a new PC.. with a MSI x79a-gd45 (8d) motherboard.

All the hardware seems to be running ok.

This is also the first time I have installed/had a UEFI PC.

First of all I tried booting a couple of my live cds to install a new system but none would boot.. after some research I found out they have to have the ability to boot in UEFI mode.

I downloaded the latest ubuntu (12.04) which is my least fave distro.. but would do for now.. and it booted to the grub menu for the live-cd.. but then when I try booting to the live demo or just install the screen goes black and I dont see anything else.. not even any kind of verbose or out of range messages...

any help would be appreciated.




Edit/Update:

I downloaded and burned the iso for 'Archboot' and again.. got it to boot but then I try to load any of the options from grub.. screen just goes black and I see no more..

I am guessing it might be some graphics card driver issue... it's an nvidia card.. usually never have any trouble with them... but I still get no message on the screen telling me anything.

as another update... tried a number of things... I read about using 'nomodeset' and a couple of other similar graphics options to the boot strings in grub... sadly none worked and I still just end up with a black screen. I even uninstalled the graphics card and installed my old one..same thing.. black screen..

so I am guessing it may be some other component.

I really don't want to do something drastic like... install windows... been windows free for 8-9 years..

download a new (10.4) version of bios from the msi site and install it from usb flash drive. it helped me with the same problem on this motherboard

if you try you can't install windows too

I forgot I made this topic... but yes it was indeed the motherboard BIOS.