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November 10th, 2011 12:00
N7110 boot from cd/usb problems
Hi, I recently purchased a N7110, i5-2430M, 4GB ram, 640GB HDD and GeForce 525 M. BIOS version is A07. I tried installing 3 OS and had problems with all of them:
- Ubuntu 11.10: After the purple screen with small logo at the bottom, the screen goes black and stays there forever. I was actually able to solve this by entering the advanced welcome page and selecting acpi=off in F6 Other Options. noapic also does the job.
- Ubuntu 7.04: I get the message 'BUG: Soft lockup detected on CPU#0'.
- Windows XP 64-bit: I get the message 'A problem has been detected and Windows has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer. ... Technical information *** STOP: 0x0000007B (0xFFFFFADF938323C0, 0xFFFFFFFFC0000034, 0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000)
I never had any of these problems with my previous computer. Can anyone confirm them? I thought it was a BIOS bug so I went to download the latest BIOS and to my surprise, it was version A06. Does that mean that A07 was buggy and Dell reverted to A06?
I also found this page http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=266327 that says that N7110 BIOS A05 and A06 have a lot of ACPI bugs but N5110 has none. Maybe this is related to my problem?
Thanks in advance
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Pablo87
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November 11th, 2011 22:00
No one else has this problem? Even if you don't know the solution, I would like to hear that someone else can replicate these problems, so I know I'm not the only one.
Forgot to mention that both Ubuntus were 64-bit.
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January 15th, 2012 11:00
When doing an installation via USB, most of your problem is going to be the USB controller. After the BIOS passes control of the system to the selected booting device, the USB controller appears to shut down, suggesting that Dell designed all 4 USB ports (2x USB 3.0, 1x USB 2.0, 1x Powered USB 2.0) to function using only a USB 3.0 controller, as an OS must be loaded for the controller to be active/
As for installing Windows XP x64, you will have to go to Intel's website and download the Huron River Mobile (HM67) chipset drivers because XP does not natively support booting a CD from SATA. You must take these chipset drivers and load them onto a floppy disk. You can either extract them from the .CAB file or leave them as a .CAB. The installer should automatically extract them, but include the drivers pre-extracted jst in case.
When installing XP, you will see a prompt soon after the installer loads, asking you to press F6 is you need to load a SCSI or RAID driver. Hit that key, and it will bring you up to a load selection prompt.
Granted, I've been trying to do this for the last week on virtually the same platform, only difference between our systems being the processor and RAM. I've been getting the same crash error regardless of what driver I load, so I am still at a loss.