So first of all, I have absolutely no idea what I'm doing. I'm trying to install Ubuntu 14.04 along side Windows 7 using the windows installer included in the download, but then when I go to restart and finish the installation, I get this error: https://i.stack.imgur.com/vIQTj.jpg
I at first figured this to be a simple download error, retrying the download twice more after that (once in the browser, once in a torrent client), verifying the MD5 sum both times, with neither download working.
As stated earlier, I have absolutely no idea what I'm doing with installing any operating system other than Windows, so I'd really appreciate some guidance as to if I'm doing something incorrectly.
Thanks!
EDIT: mcelog decode output
$ mcelog --ascii
CPU 0: Machine Check Exception: 5 Bank 4: be00000000800400
RIP !INEXACT! 10:<ffffffff813d340b> {intel_idle+0xab/0x100}
TSC 1db9128ac4 ADDR ffffffff8136f8f0 MISC ffffffff813bf8f0
PROCESSOR 0:306c3 TIME 1396513815 SOCKET 0 APIC 0 microcode 9CPU 0: Machine Check Exception: 5 Bank 4: be00000000800400
TSC 1db9128ac4 ADDR ffffffff8136f8f0 MISC ffffffff813bf8f0
Hardware event. This is not a software error.
CPU 0 BANK 4 TSC 1db9128ac4
RIP !INEXACT! 10:ffffffff813d340b
MISC ffffffff813bf8f0 ADDR ffffffff8136f8f0
TIME 1396513815 Thu Apr 3 09:30:15 2014
STATUS be00000000800400 MCGSTATUS 5
CPUID Vendor Intel Family 6 Model 60
RIP: intel_idle+0xab/0x100}
PROCESSOR 0:306c3 TIME 1396513815 SOCKET 0 APIC 0 microcode 9
nomodeset
. If that does not help, check the hardware (clean the dust, re-plug cpu, memory, graphics card, try a different CPU etc.) I found the same "Exception: 5 Bank 4" error reported by a user on freedesktop, who eventually fixed it by replacing his motherboard. Does Windows 7 work ok? Interesting that the Linux kernel of the installer booted without error.