Okay, so a while ago, I asked you guys about USB installing Ubuntu, but no matter what I did, it never worked.
I shrugged it off from a while, came back to it, still couldn't make it work. So, instead of using USB, I went with DVD. Guess what? Still refuses to work.
Is my computer an asshole or is there something else I can do? It's an Acer Extensa 4630Z with an Intel T3400 Pentium dual core and 2 GBs of RAM.
Has your laptop been attending mandatory sensitivity training seminars? Can you snap a picture of the screen with your phone while the machine is frozen so we can see the last thing to be displayed? Furthermore, you may have better luck with a different distro as suggested above. Maybe Fedora, OpenSuse, or hell even knopix?
You could try installing Korora on it. I had to try at least 20 times to install the OS on my laptop. Make sure your .iso is complete (check the md5 code). Good luck.
EDIT: I think when I successfully installed it, I had the disc drive ejected. You could try that if you get desperate.
Normally F12 or another key will bring up the terminal and you can watch that for an error code. your laptop's ram isn't much so it just might take a while for it to load.