I have processor intel core i3 which linux distro can i install

Hi, I have too many doubts about installing linux on my computer. I have a toshiba a505 4gb ram and a intel core i3 processor. I tried ubuntu without installing but it didnt work, also I have installed centos and when I turn on the computer the grub appears showing centos and windows7 but the only thing I get when I select the linux option is a black screen, I am really confused. I would appreciate if someone can give me a hint of what is wrong, or how can I do in order to work in linux in this computer.

PD: Sorry about my english there are several years I don't write a single sentence.

I had a look at the Toshiba site, I'm guessing you are on this one:

http://laptops.toshiba.com/laptops [...] A505-S6005

I can't find the chipset but there is a PDF linked from the above page.

Which version of Ubuntu did you try to run? 9.10 should work as a live CD.

Have you tried fedora 12?

http://fedoraproject.org/en/get-fedora-all

Good luck

Can you explain what you mean by 'less graphics'? The intel chipsets are well supported by Ubuntu.

Just built a 530 machine with Ubuntu 9.10 using the on board graphics and h55 chipset. After having some lag and video freezes I found some posts (sorry don't have the links) that said manually upgrading to the latest kernel may help and there is also evidence that Gnome is the problem. I upgraded the kernel and that fixed the freezes. The applications lagged at times so I installed Kubuntu-desktop (Ubuntu's KDE) on top of it. KDE seems to have fixed the lagging issues.

@macman101010

"Intel's Core i3 530 is an interesting, low to mid-range processor. Intel's Clarkdale family was just introduced earlier this month, but it will work with recent Linux distributions and should work particularly well with the distributions coming around in H1'2010 that are using the Linux 2.6.32 kernel (or newer). Found in the newer kernel is support for the integrated graphics processor and other work."
-- http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?p [...] _530&num=9

Why not go with Linux Mint debian 32-bit (201101)? 64-bit ubuntu is not getting good reviews.
http://www.linuxmint.com/edition.php?id=66

Any Debian-based distro allows usage of the award-winnning smxi script, which simplifies things immensely (not available for 'buntu-based distros) http://smxi.org/site/install.htm

If 4GB RAM, go 64-bit, but why buggy ubuntu is a preference I cannot fathom. Try Zorin -- see at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jefw39urklw

32-bit turns out to be 3.25gb addressable.

Yes, the kernel can address that much with PAE, but only 3.25 segments will be exposed per process.

Nothing that I can think of, I'm just pointing out the limitations of using a 32-bit linux OS on a system with more than 4gb of ram.

I was having a problem with 64 bit on my laptop because of a buggy BIOS, switching to 32bit worked flawlessly until the kernel had a workaround for the BIOS bug. Worked like a charm, but I went back to 64 to be able to provide bug reports to my distro.