I'm having this issue as well. Intel Pentium 4 Northwood core processor Sapphire Atlantis Radeon 9600 video card Compaq 7550 flatscreen crt monitor Abit A17 motherboard 2 x 512mb pc2700 ddr G. Skill ram
Downloaded the ISO three times and confirmed the MD5 checksum. Burned the ISO to disc 3 times and checked the data on the disc. Tried installing probably about 6 times, sometimes on the default vga setting and other times on a manual 1280x1024 vga setting. -- Install 6:10 Failure: Black screen at Live Desktop Stage https://launchpad.net/bugs/67487 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
