- Mar 4, 2015
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Hello! I decided to try and fiddle with the pc building process before investing a lot of money. Today I found a decent tower and between 2 older computers, I threw together a machine. I got through the building part fine and everything is powered on. I have a green light on my motherboard and BIOS seems to recognize everything I have connected (HDD, RAM, DVD, and USB).
I loaded ubuntu onto my lexar usb using two different programs to format and mount it to the drive. The most I get from BIOS is the "reboot and select proper boot device." Otherwise it just blinks at me. Same goes for using a DVD with the iso burned onto it. I also tried the usb method with an iso for xubuntu to no avail.
Is what I'm trying to do even possible? Here's what I'm dealing with:
CPU: Intel Celeron 2.4ghz
Motherboard: Intel d845epi/d845gvsr
HDD: hp 160gb
PSU: Rosewill 400w
Sony CD-RW
Not sure about the memory, but BIOS tells me that i've got 128kb cache, 1.5gb total memory. 512mb in bank 0 and 1024 in bank 1. My brain hurts right now :/ I wanna learn how to get past this so I'll feel more confident when dropping money on new parts to build my gaming rig. So help is greatly appreciated!
I loaded ubuntu onto my lexar usb using two different programs to format and mount it to the drive. The most I get from BIOS is the "reboot and select proper boot device." Otherwise it just blinks at me. Same goes for using a DVD with the iso burned onto it. I also tried the usb method with an iso for xubuntu to no avail.
Is what I'm trying to do even possible? Here's what I'm dealing with:
CPU: Intel Celeron 2.4ghz
Motherboard: Intel d845epi/d845gvsr
HDD: hp 160gb
PSU: Rosewill 400w
Sony CD-RW
Not sure about the memory, but BIOS tells me that i've got 128kb cache, 1.5gb total memory. 512mb in bank 0 and 1024 in bank 1. My brain hurts right now :/ I wanna learn how to get past this so I'll feel more confident when dropping money on new parts to build my gaming rig. So help is greatly appreciated!
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