Flickering screen and unable to install

[PAUSIMS]

Hi,

First of all I have to apologize for my English, it's not good but I hope you can understand me. I'm absolutely new in Ubuntu, I have several years of experience in Windows and also in Mac but it's the first time I try to install any Linux distribution.

I downloaded the 9.10 from the Ubuntu website (not as torrent, but as direct download) and I burnt the ISO image in a CD. I intruduced the CD in the computer where I want to install Ubuntu and I rebooted it.

Then the Ubuntu install-try menu appeared. I chose "try" and appeared a white ubuntu logo fading in and out, and then some text that was like the boot up of Ubuntu. In that point, the screen starts flickering every second, and when I push the power-off button of my computer it stops flickering and says something like "you pressed power off - please remove the CD and close the tray", and then the computer shuts down.

The same happens when I choose Install. At the point it appears a progress number (0%) of the file system, the screen starts flickering and the progress it seems it stops, or at less it's extremely slow.

My computer it's a bit old but I think that's not the problem. It's a Pentium IV at 3'40Ghz, 1GB of RAM and what seems to have the problem, a Nvidia Quadro 256MB graphics card (I don't know the exact model but if you need it I can find it).

Thanks in advance

[devils casper]

Hi and Welcome !

Its a Graphics Card problem only. If you are planning to install Ubuntu then use Alternate Installation CD. It has text based installer and it work fine with all cards.

Alternate CD .iso image is available along with other Regular Ubuntu .iso images at download page of Ubuntu Site.

[PAUSIMS]

Thanks for your answer. This morning, don't ask me how, I was able to install Ubuntu without the flickering. It just worked... anyway, when it said me to reboot it won't start (flickering again and after saying that there's a problem with the filesystem).

But, I discovered that all this it may be caused by overheating. I'm not able to reset my system succesfully without waiting several minutes.

So, the solution to all that was to wait about 10 minutes and then it'll start OK. The same everytime I shut down the computer... I have to wait some minutes before starting it up again because if not it'll flicker again