Recent content by jmcc

Actually, yes, thank you; this worked. It finally got to the GUI installation phase. Of course, due to the curse on me for a mishap at a voodoo mixer I went to, my troubles still aren't over. One of the other disc drives I tried in ruling out the optical drive as the problem had its way with my...

Well, update. The ram got here and it didn't change anything. So, I've tried different ram, different optical drives, and I don't think it's the HDD, given that an Ubuntu LiveCD hangs, too. So, at this point, unless anyone has any other suggestions, I think the motherboard is probably the culprit.

I'll give this a try, though it's all new cables and the DVD drive worked fine in the PC I took it out of... This is my second step and really, I hope it's as simple as this. I just don't know what the chances are of two sticks of memory coming bad from Newegg. I've tried them seperately...

But I need a little advice. I got the basics of my new PC together last week and haven't been able to do anything with it due to some hardware thing going on. It's configured as follows: Gigabyte GA-965P-DS3 mobo e6600 2 gigs of gskill 1.8v 4200 ram Gigabyte 7600gs vid card Generic [NEC]...