My mistake, I had attempted to reproduce the problem with the alternate install when the problem was clearly with the desktop install.
To answer Matthew's question, here is what I tried: 1. Booted from the desktop installation without the splash option and there was no loud beep. 2. Attempted to change to another console using ctrl-alt-F[1-6] and there were only black screens, no prompt or anything. So, I went back to the desktop with ctrl-alt-F7. 3. Opened a terminal window and ran the usplash command. The screen went black and then white. However, there was no loud beep. By the way, when booting without splash, I noticed the following error message: PCI: BIOS Bug: MCFG area at f000000 is not E820-reserved PCI: Not using MMCONFIG Anything else I should try? -- Loud beep when installing feisty-desktop-i386 on DQ965COEKR motherboard https://launchpad.net/bugs/80535 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
