im having problems with the live cd its just stops at probing device nodes and if it goes past that then my keyboard no longer works to choose 41 for eng but it works at start when i can choose to boot from live cd or text or hdd. I tried a different keyboard but cant get by divice node when i use it. Any help would be appriciated.

You are trying the live CD on a Desktop or laptop? what is the mother board?

Check the bios vendor's website for any firmware updates and apply any new releases.

mobo is evga 750i SLI FTW and im all up to date. 4GB of ram, quad core, 2 nvidia vid cards.