Roger,
I tried to boot with the Linux disk and I still get nothing. Now I remember Ubunto as being a Red Hat Linux program that favored windows.
So, I guess that it must be the motherboard or power supply. Just kind of weird that it went bad right in the middle of installing Vista. Could there be anything causing the problem since I used Red Hat installation first which never completed installation, then the Dell Vista recovery disk?
I'll test the power supply with an ohmmeter to see if I have the right voltage coming out of the plug and if so will go looking for a hard drive for the Acer Aspire 4330 if my friend wants to pay for it. Being retired you don't have all that "fun money" you used to have when you were still working....LOL
Dan
----- Original Message -----
From: "RogerX19" <helpmeroger@earthlink.net>
To: "Dan Scott" <dans0110@gmail.com>
Sent: Sunday, July 03, 2011 3:16 PM
Subject: Re: Computer ^&$%(&#
> Hi Dan,
>
> Red Hat is a version of Linux. I can still make you a copy of Ubuntu, but it
> won't tell you anything you don't already know.
>
> If you boot with Linux OK, then you don't have a motherboad or power supply
> problem.
>
> The fact that you could not install it would suggest that you have a bad
> hard drive. That would also explain why you can't reinstall Windows.
>
> You might try booting with Red Hat and using it to look at the hard drive.
> If you can read files on it, that means the hard drive is not totally dead.
> Perhaps you can get any important files off it.
>
> You can use some free utilities to check the hard drive for errors, and
> possibly mark those sections as out-of-service, but if the hard drive has
> gone that far bad, I would just replace it.
>
> I can't guarantee that the hard drive is the cause of your problems, but
> that is the direction I would look.
>
> rogerX
>
>
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "Dan Scott" <dans0110@gmail.com>
> Sent: Sunday, July 03, 2011 5:28 AM
> To: <helpmeroger@earthlink.net>
> Subject: Re: Computer ^&$%(&#
>
>> Hi Roger,
>>
>> I think your right about getting a hardware problem at the same time.
>>
>> Ubuntu Linux sounds familiar but never thought about using it to boot a
>> dead computer. That sure is nice of you to offer to send me a copy CD
>> since I never made a Linux boot CD before.
>>
>> Roger, one thing I failed to mention was that since I couldn't get the
>> computer to boot on a Vista recovery disk I tried booting on Red Hat which
>> started the computer but failed during the install. After that, I was
>> able to boot on the Dell Vista recovery disk.
>>
>> Dan
>>
>>
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