Skype stopped working for seemingly no reason (I use 12.10), it would display "Skype can't connect" even though everything else was working perfectly. After checking a bunch of forums & questions on here, I uninstalled it and tried reinstalling. I get the error message
"Package dependencies cannot be resolved / This error could be caused by required additional software packages which are missing or not installable. Furthermore there could be a conflict between software packages which are not allowed to be installed at the same time"
I tried reinstalling it using the terminal but failed there too. Not too long after that I started getting System Error pop ups regularly (send report, new one pops a couple hours later), so I decided to upgrade, which I was putting off for a while. I'm by no means savvy at this so after figuring out I couldn't just upgrade straight to 14.04 from where I am I backed up my files and decided to do a clean install. I made a live usb using unetbootin. Problem is, I can't seem to access the BIOS at all. F2 used to work when I had windows on this machine (Ubuntu is the only OS I have on it at the moment), but it just doesn't prompt anything now. Neither does F12 or any of the F-s. It seems like it just speeds through the initial booting process?
Any ideas what to do at this point? I don't care about the data remaining on the computer, I just want to install 14.04 even if that means overwriting my disk.
I have a Samsung Notebook NP300V5A if that helps.