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I am setting up a dedicated plex media server for the house.  The hardware is as follows:
http://pcpartpicker.com/list/gtT6sJ  (AMD 5350 Processor in an Asus AM1M-A MoBo)

I have attempted to install several different flavors of Ubuntu on the machine (Mint, Ubuntu, Lubuntu, Linux Lite).  Linux Lite has allowed me to progress further into install than any other distro.

Each time I boot into Linux the system eventually crashes.  When it does, whatever is displayed on the monitor, whether or text or graphics, is scrambled and the entire system freezes.  I am able to run Lite live for some time by starting in safe mode and entering "nomodeset" prior to boot, but eventually the graphics scramble and the system freezes.

Similarly, when I try to install, the process will go smoothly for a while, but eventually the same graphic freeze occurs. 

This happens with every distro I've tried.  I'm beginning to think there is a hardware issue.  Google searches have done little good.  Anyone have any suggestions?

Could be faulty hardware, I'd recommend Intel CPU's. AMD don't have the best support on linux unfortunately.

Thanks for the reply. I'm starting to believe this is faulty hardware, as well. Looking into some small intel mobos and light cpus. Any suggestions from experience?

Talked to the guy at a local computer shop. I was getting ready to purchase new mobo and cpu. He suggested it might be a bad stick of RAM based on description.

Bought new RAM instead of new mobo and cpu. Hopefully this solves the issue. Will report back.

@Waaaghinator...

I was looking for an Intel Mobo, decided I didn't need very high performance CPU, but wanted 4X SATA and lots of USB
I found this ASRock Mobo, with on-board N3700 CPU, seems to be working well, still in building/playing mode, and only used LL2.8, I'm sure 3.0 will be fine...


Depends on what you are doing really, desktop, media, storage....


I notice today that ASRock are the first with the new mini-stx format, supposedly the next BIG thing, for small PC's

Solved!  It was bad RAM. Install was smooth once I swapped the memory sticks.