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FIXED restarting problems - I think it was a graphics driver Isssue

CPU: AMD APU A86500 3.5ghz
MOBO: MSI A78M-E35
2x4gb DDR3 RAM HyperX blu 1866mhz
Asus HD6670 1GB DDR5 discrete graphics card

OLD HDD:
Ubuntu 12.04 64 bit on Mushkin 60gb SSD
Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit on Seagate 320 GB HDD 7200rpm

NEW SSHD
SSHD Seagate Hybrid drive 1TB
O/S : Dual boot Windows 7 home premium 64 bit, Ubuntu 14.04 64bit


Hi there, i am a casual user of Ubuntu since 2010 with dual boot of Windows in almost all of my systems.  I have used Ubuntu 10.04, 12.04, and now 14.04.  I am a newbie in techinical terms, so please excuse the lack of clarity.

Initially i had problems installing Ubuntu 14.04 on the above new built
in May 2014 alongside windows 7, both live cd and usb would load to
install screen and restart constantly.  After a few installation trials
i gave up. however i successfully installed Ubuntu 12.04 64bit on the
SSD and ran it for months no major issues, and my windows 7 boted fine
on the normal hdd Today i wanted to upgrade to 14.04 as i migrated both
my OS to my new SSHD Seagate 1TB, my SSD started to fail and i sent it
back to Muskin, good after sales service, still waiting for replacement.
Had to do boot repair for the old dual boot though, worked fine after
that.

It installed fine after a couple of installation trials when it would
just restart automatically.  Then during the post installation things to
do it kept restarting numerous times.  So I restarted on safe mode Linux
3.13.0-xx-generic (Recovery Mode), then booted with normal mode, when to
additional drivers, unselected 'Using X.org X AMD/ATI display driver
wrapper from xerver-xorg-video-ati (open source, tested)', then selected
the last option at the bottom 'Using Video driver for the AMD graphics
accelarators from fglrx-updates (proprietary)', rebooted and voila,
problem fixed so far.  I have been using it now for four hours and no
restarting at all, cannot speak for longer term, i will post back daily
to confirm or correct.

Good luck...

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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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