I am a newbie when it comes to linux. I have played around with it for a few years on different older computers that were laying around, however never really sticking to it. I just built a new computer a few months ago and decided to dual boot it. I have windows 7 and ubuntu 12 running on it now, however when i upgraded ubuntu to kernel 3.8 **** went all wrong, the system would no longer boot past grub. I can select the recovery option, however it hangs half way through. I got tired of reading forums and trying process after process that didnt work so i tried a different distro all together(opensuse,fedora and mint) None of the other distros will even boot to their live cds. I can get to the welcome screen and select what i want to do then after a few lines of code, it hangs. always in the same place.

My computer is set up for sata and the bios is on ahci setting not ide. any help would be appreciated. Thank you.


my system:



1 x LG DVD Burner Black SATA Model GH24NS90 - OEM


1 x Kingston HyperX 3K SH103S3/120G 2.5" 120GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) (Stand-Alone Drive)


1 x Intel Core i5-3570K Ivy Bridge 3.4GHz (3.8GHz Turbo) LGA 1155 77W Quad-Core Desktop Processor Intel HD Graphics ...


1 x AMD Gift - Dirt SHOWDOWN Gift Coupon


1 x Logitech Wireless Combo MK260 920-002950 Black USB RF Wireless Standard Keyboard and Mouse


1 x G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 2133 (PC3 17000) Desktop Memory Model F3-17000CL9D-8GBXM


1 x MSI Z77A-GD65 LGA 1155 Intel Z77 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard with UEFI BIOS


1 x MSI R7850 Twin Frozr 2GD5/OC Radeon HD 7850 2GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support ...


1 x Seagate Barracuda ST1000DM003 1TB 7200 RPM SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive