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[Rick Robinson <robinsontech@xxxxxxxxx>]

Solution to my problem - (Thank you Rick Forberg!)
Linux Mint 17 Qiana won't install - keeps rebooting. It doesn't matter if the installation medium is a flash drive or CD. Once the live version loads it immediately reboots. There isn't enough time to install it. Once I managed to actually install it after dozens of tries. The result was it would get to the login, accept my credentials then reboot before actually loading. Thankfully after reading several of the posts on this page I was able to work out a procedure to install the OS, then fix the issue for my MSI desktops.

Most of the Desktops at work running Linux Mint are custom built MSI boards with the following configurations:
Motherboard: MSI A78M-E45
BIOS: AMI BIOS 25.1 (2013-12-09) & 25.3 (2014-03-19)
APU: AMD A10-5800K (quad core) Trinity 3.8 GHz
RAM: Patriot Viper DDR3 2133 (PC3 17000) 4x4GB

and

Motherboard: MSI FM2-A55M-E33
BIOS: E7721AMS v11.4 (2013-10-23)
APU: AMD A8-5600K (quad core) 3.60GHz
RAM: HyperX DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) 2x4GB

Both desktop configurations had the same problem. They were running
Linux Mint 15 and 16. I have now replaced some of them with Qiana 17.
Installing Linux Mint 17 on them had been a problem. Here is what I did
to fix it:

Once the live version started to load I kept the mouse constantly moving
with one hand. With the other hand, using the keyboard, I started the
installation utility and answered all the questions for the installation
(I kept the mouse moving the entire time). Once the installation was
finished the utility requested a restart. When the OS restarted I kept
the mouse moving again, put in my login credentials and when Mint loaded
I launched the terminal with <ctr>+<alt>+t.

In the terminal I updated the advanced packaging tool: apt-get update && apt-get upgrade
(This takes quite a while, but it is important to keep the mouse moving the entire time)

Then, I updated the display drivers: apt-get install fglrx-updates
(you will need to prepend these commands with sudo if you are not root when you run them)

After the the two commands (above) finished. I restarted the desktop and
installation on the desktop has been stable ever since. This is true of
all the desktops (configurations above). I hope this post will be
helpful to anyone having problems with MSI motherboards. They are my
systemboards of choice and I am very grateful to all the contributors of
this forum. Your posts and insights have made this fix possible.

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Title:
  Ubuntu 14.04 suddenly reboots when booting from Live USB AMD A8 6600k

Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  I have a custom built AMD System with the following hardware currently
  running on Linux Mint 16 :

  AMD A8 6600k with Integrated graphics | MSI-FM2-A55M-E33 Motherboard |
  Kingston Hyperx Blu 4GB RAM | Corsair VS450 PSU

  Today when I tried to install 14.04 amd64 iso using a bootable USB,
  then the system rebooted. Any further attempts in installing it
  resulted in the same bug. As soon as I open the "Ubuntu installer"
  application and click "Continue" button then the system restarts after
  2-3 seconds.

  I asked the same on AskUbuntu and some more guys reported the same
  problem with AMD APU, so I believe it to be a genuine bug and not just
  with me.

  The BIOS version is the latest one downloaded from MSI official
  website which is version 11.5.

  Also an Interesting thing is that this bug is common with the latest
  iso of Arch Linux too, but when booting older distros like Linux Mint
  16 from USB, then everything works like it should, so it might have
  something to do with the newer 3.13 Kernel version.

  I am not an expert, but I can surely tell that only the newer distros
  are affected by this bug as reported by some other guys at AskUbuntu
  and the fact that Arch which is running the newer Kernel is having the
  same bug, so it probably has something to do with the newer Kernel,
  but I could be wrong.

  This bug is not letting me install Ubuntu 14.04 on my hardware and it
  is affecting a few more users too. Here is the AskUbuntu thread :
  http://askubuntu.com/questions/449391/unable-to-install-ubuntu-14-04
  -pc-restarts-after-i-click-continue-button-in

  I hope this gets fixed soon or with the 14.04.1 upcoming July release.

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