Comment 121 for bug 204996

>8 minutes is the fastest I've seen posted. How reproducible is that?

I can easily beat that. For one, I've brand new to Linux. I've tried 7.10 and now 8.04. Both locked up with the standard install. And I'm talking before it was even at the point of picking which hard drive to install it on. Basically, I stick the CD in, click "Install" and it locks up. And it would lockup and different points as the Ubuntu Loader screen was running.

I did, however, try the "Alternate CD" the other night with 8.04 and it worked! YAY! However, after it rebooted and it took me to the login screen, I entered the credentials, and as it was playing the "startup sound" it locked up and repetitively played about a 1 second clip of it continuously until i had to reboot. Now, even in "recovery mode" it locks up even before getting to the logon screen .

My hardware is fine as I've been running XP and/or Vista on it for 2 years.

Hardware:
Intel E6600
2GB OCZ Ram (2x OCZ2P8001GK)
Foxconn P9657AA-8KS2H
Maxtor SATA 250GB hard drive
2 SATA DVD Drives
Nvidia 7900GS

I'd include any attachments to log files, but i have no idea what I'm doing with Linux, and I can't even get to the login screen to type that stuff.