Trouble booting PC

Hi

I picked up an old PC with a pentium 533MHz processor and upgraded it with the following :

80GB IDE HDD, 1 GB RAM and an LG 20x DVD combo drive. I have set the BIOS boot sequence to the DVD drive.

Now I try to boot up with an Ubuntu live CD in the drive but the system always stops at this point. Doesn't go further.

Any ideas why? Is there anyway I can get more info? A log file somewhere, for example. Thanks.


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Award Medallion BIOS v6.0, An Energy Star Ally
Copyright (c) 1984-2000, Award Software, Inc.

ASUS P3B-F ACPI BIOS Revision 1005

Intel (R) Pentium(R) III 500 MHz Processor
Memory Test : 1048576K OK

Award Plug and Play BIOS Extension v1.0A
Initialize Plug and Play Cards...
PNP Init Completed

Trend ChipAwayVirus(R) On Guard

Detecting Primary Master ... ST380215A
Detecting Primary Slave ... HL-DT-STDVD-RAM GSA-H55N
Detecting Secondary Master ... SAMSUNG SC-148B
Detecting Secondary Master ... LG CD-RW CED-8083B

- <the cursor just stays here blinking...>

IIRC most P3 boards will not take a gig of memory, My last P3 boards supported 512 mb on the intel chipset and 768 on the BX chipset board.

http://www.hardware-one.com/reviews...usP3B-F_3.shtml



check that the ram is set as pc-100 and that you have 4 sticks of 256.

it is also wierd that the cpu is reading at 500mhz rather than 533 mhz. check that the fsb is set appropriately.

i have the impression that it needs a bios update and alot of tweaking.