I try booting my ASUS EeePC 900A, and it shows the splash screen fine, but after showing the screen saying "Starting System..." it goes to a black screen with a white blinking cursor in the left hand corner. Sometimes the screen flashes and shows the cross in the middle of the screen, or changes briefly to a light grey colour (the colour it goes when loading correctly) but only for a few seconds before reverting to the black screen with the blinking cursor. It will not go past this stage. I do not want to do a factory restore, as I am trying to access and retrieve my old files.
SOURCE: asus EEE PC 900A Linux- boot problem after downloading updates
Consider downloading a specific release of Ubuntu; eeebuntu. Download the ISO and then conenct an external DVD device to it, during the BIOS screen, choose the ESC button and boot from the external device.
This Ubuntu-specific group offers three kinds of ISO's (simple, super basic, and a loaded release), all of which allow all parts to work out of the box:
http://www.eeebuntu.org/
If this does not work, check the informal eeepc forums
http://forum.eeeuser.com/
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