Paul, the problem occurs immediately after the status bar disappears. Relative to the CD splash, this is over 60 seconds so I'm not sure that's a relevant measure considering time may vary significantly depending on hardware at that point.
As requested, here is the dmesg log attached below... -- 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