Quick background to the problem. I have a Packard Bell PC which had become unusable as it either did not boot up or locked up after a time (could be hours or minutes). I came to the conclusion that it was either the motherboard or CPU. This week I managed to buy from eBay an used motherboard of the same model wit a CPU. The CPU is of a slightly lower spec but I thought that I get this up and running and I swap CPUs at a later date.
Changed the motherboard and it booted up and started to run Windows XP then got stuck on Activate Windows, no luck with the online activating and the telephone method being informed that I got a counterfeit copy. Which it is not just an OEM version that came with the PC. So I thought instead of trying to get XP activated that I try Ubuntu. But I seem to have a problem that the live run CD is not working and a quick search it seem there is /was a problem with AMI Bios and socket775 boards. My motherboard is a socket 775 P5S800-VM running bios 1023. When I got the motherboard it had bios 1005 but I have upgraded the bios to 1023 which is newest Asus have on their site for my motherboard, but it still over 3 years old.
Any knowledgeable users out there that know of this problem and how to get over it? The live CD worked fine on another PC and what I saw of Ubuntu has made me want to stick with it for the time being to sovle this problem.
