Trying to boot from cd, just keep getting some kind of reset...

[Blackhats]

Hallo folks, thanks for taking the time to look, it's appreciated.

I know that I saw several topics about resetting during install, but I don't think I've seen any legit answer to those topics. If there was, and I happen to miss it, very sorry.

So, here's the deal. Just got a sweet lil Epia mini-ITX mobo in today. It's a VIA Epia MII10000 if anyone's curious. Sweet little machine.

I'm using a regular 300W power supply (for now) along with a regular 10 gig hard drive and a CD Rom drive.

The hard drive has Windows 2000 Server on it. Obviously, I'd like to reformat that, and install Linux on it.

Dropped the install cd for X-Ubuntu in and....nothing. It keeps resetting. A screen will come up and say that it's reading from cd, and then soft reset the system.

I took the liberty to play around and try several distros, and each one seems like it's doing the same thing.

I should mention that if I let the hard drive boot, it will, but partially through the start-up for 2000, it'll read some kind of IDE error, and I get major blue screen.

Any help with this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks a ton in advanced. I'll keep trying...

Jose'

[cas]

This section is mean for vista queries but your problem seems to lies with window 2000 and linux. Try posting at general help arena, VIA EPIA and Mini-ITX arena or linux arena.

[Blackhats]

Hah, I just realized that I posted this in the Vista area instead of the Linux area. Heh, very sorry. If a mod can delete this, it would be appreciated. I'll re-post the information in the Linux area.

Again, sorry for the trouble, and thanks for the quick response.

Jose'