Got a G50VT-X2, installed linux, now laptop won't boot at all!

Help!

I got my new laptop today, and decided to dualboot it with Vista and Ubuntu. Everything went fine and dandy, the linux installation was made on a separate partition. After the linux install, I rebooted the computer and when I booted into Vista, a huge error sign came up that said something like "Cannot read recovery.dat" or something like that and "ERROR" in huge red letters.

I freaked out and rebooted again, only now it won't even pass the boot screen. The laptop freezes at the "Republic of Gamers" screen, and there's a HUGE continuous beeping noise. Not like "Beep... Beep" but more like "BeepBeepBeepBeepBeepBeepBeep." It won't boot.

Could it be that I overheated it? I've been using it for about 8+ hours. I didn't get a system restore CD, where can I get one? Am I f**ked?

Any idea what's up? Please don't tell me I have to ship it back to ASUS.

 

The last time I got beeping from a laptop like that, one of my components had come lose somehow! It's a wild card, but I would check they are all in place inside the notebook by giving them I light push, to ease them back in if they have come out.
Sorry I can't help any further!
EDIT
However that's quite unlikely to be the problem, and would need a fairly big coincidence!
I would be asking the question why is there no recovery CDs... Ring up newegg and try to find out.

 

I think what you are experiencing is the recovery partition loop error. It's a known bug, there was a hidden recovery partition that may have gotten messed up in the ubuntu setup process. If I recall correctly the only way to get out of that loop is to use the recovery process and wipe everything away. In your case it might be a catch 22 requiring a more evasive method such as a livecd with disk utilities or yanking the hard disk out, putting it in an external enclosure, and taking care of the disk with another computer.

Here's a thread, but it's not the one I was looking for. At least you aren't alone:
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=295901

Can you boot with any sort of media? Like your ubuntu CD? There is always the chance you can get in and delete that partition. Also if you have a vista DVD (a retail one, not the recovery disc), you can use it to reset your boot sector in recovery mode (you will need to redo GRUB or whatever boot manager you use from ubuntu).

edit: Try hitting escape at the boot screen to get to the boot selection menu to boot off removable media or CD

 

Turns out the beeping noise was from probably an overheating issue. I left the laptop with the battery out for a few hours and tried booting again. This time it got out of the BIOS screen and started to boot, and made it to GRUB.

Thing is, the Ubuntu installation must have messed something up, so right now I'm doing a system recovery (turns out I have a CD from an old desktop I bought). When I selected Windows Vista / Longhorn in GRUB, it loaded windows but I got a BSOD before even making it to the log in screen.

Verdict: I guess I'm not ready to install ubuntu just yet, should research on it more.

I wanted to Dual-Boot into linux because I needed a web server and was going to install XAMPP. I'm going to present a website (in php, mysql) at a conference, but I was unsure of how compatible my site would be with a Windows Server. Are there any really simple linux distros that I could run my server on? The site needs to be hosted locally, as there will be no wireless internet.

Thanks

 

I'm not saying don't use Ubuntu cause I think Ubuntu is great, but you could use: http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-windows.html

In all actuality too you can install Ubuntu within Windows. Boot the Ubuntu CD in while your in windows and it will load its own .exe

It will actually create the ext3 and the swap space all within windows as virtual partitions. It will run a little bit slower than it's supposed to (So no gaming or anything, theoretically). Whenever you wanna uninstall just select Ubuntu from within the programs list in windows and uninstall it just like any other program.

And just so you know it does install GRUB and everything, so its not like Virtualbox or anything.

 

I'm currently using WAMP for my Windows Machine. What are the differences of XAMPP and WAMP?

 

That vista in your GRUB menu was not vista, it's the recovery partition. Maybe grub didn't automatically see your real windows partition. That happened to me on my N10J until I tried booting into windows and found out the hard way LOL

 

This happened to me. What I think happened is that GRUB tried to load off the windows recovery partition. What I did to fix this was to reinstall ubuntu and use gparted to determine the partition order and then edit /boot/grub/menu.lst

>> sudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst

and comment out the recovery partition part.

 

If you can not fix it... at least you have a 2 year warranty=)
Do not despair.