Hi, first post, I searched for problems like mine, but they did not help.

I boot the cd 6.10 or 7.04 beta.

I get to the first screen ok. With start or install Ubuntu, the next thing I see is my monitor says, loading linux...
then I get a message from my monitor,

out of range, H:35kh vertical, V:87khz and it shuts off. It's a flat panel 1280x1024 screen.

I've tried, using esc to get to the boot: prompt.

I've then entered, live vga=ask noapic nolapic

I then get press <RETURN> to see video modes, it says,

Video adapter: VESA VGA
... bunch of mode COLSxRows like,
0 0F00 80x25

...

then enter mode number or 'scan', I've tried a few mode numbers and tried scan, nothing works.

I've got an ecs k7vta3 mobo, with an amd athlon 1800 processor and an (older) diamond stealth video card (2 megs I think)

any suggestions?

Well, it's not the video card. I plugged in 2 different video cards. The first was a pci card, and it had the same result.

The second was an agp card, and it got a bit further. It got to the next screen and froze there.

I also built a working system on my other computer, then tried to move the hard drive over and it booted and got stuck at the same place. So, i booted with the recovery kernel, and for what it's worth, it left a lot of debugging stuff on the screen:


call trace:
send_IPI_mask_bitmaxk...
filemap_nopage
timer_interrupt
handle_irq_event
handle_level_irp
do_irq
__user_walk_fd
common_interrupt
find_vma
do_page_fault
do_page_fault
error_code

Then a line with Code: and a bunch of numbers all 2 digit hex values.




So, it appears it does not like my mobo. I have a win2k system that works just fine on this hardware.

Here's a cpu-z output of this machine:

CPU-Z 1.39 report file

Processor(s)

Number of processors 1
Number of cores 1 per processor
Number of threads 1 (max 1) per processor
Name AMD Athlon XP
Code Name Thorton
Specification AMD Athlon(tm) XP rrsossor
Package Socket A (462)
Family/Model/Stepping 6.A.0
Extended Family/Model 7.A
Core Stepping
Technology 0.13 um
Core Speed 1795.1 MHz
Multiplier x Bus speed 13.5 x 133.0 MHz
Rated Bus speed 265.9 MHz
Instruction sets MMX (+), 3DNow! (+), SSE
L1 Data cache 64 KBytes, 2-way set associative, 64-byte line size
L1 Instruction cache 64 KBytes, 2-way set associative, 64-byte line size
L2 cache 256 KBytes, 16-way set associative, 64-byte line size

Chipset & Memory

Northbridge VIA KT400 (VT8377) rev. 00
Southbridge VIA VT8235 rev. 00
Memory Type DDR
Memory Size 512 MBytes
Memory Frequency 199.6 MHz (FSB + 66 MHz)
DRAM Interleave 4-way
CAS# Latency (tCL) 3.0 clocks
RAS# to CAS# (tRDC) 5 clocks
RAS# Precharge (tRP) 3 clocks
Cycle Time (tRAS) 7 clocks

System

System Manufacturer VIA Technologies, Inc.
System Name KT333CF-8235
System S/N
Mainboard Vendor
Mainboard Model KT333CF-8235
BIOS Vendor Phoenix Technologies, LTD
BIOS Version 6.00 PG
BIOS Date 09/22/2003

Memory SPD

Module 1 DDR, PC3200 (200 MHz), 512 MBytes, unknown brand

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What happens when you type "vgalo" (without quotes) at the first install screen before proceeding? Stands for VGA -- Lo resolution

Well, after much trial and error and googling linux boot options, I stumbled upon this combination:

boot: live nosmp noapic nolapic

The nosmp seems to be the key item that finally did the trick. Wonder why it thought I had a multi-processor - if I understand nosmp correctly.


I booted my hard disk from my other system and added these into grub on the kernel line.

So, if this keeps up, I'm a happy camper!