Why won't Ubuntu load the login screen?

I'm trying to run ubuntu off of a flash drive but after the loading screen then it quickly goes to some silver screen then it goes to a black screen with just a cursor. After sitting here for about 5 minutes the cursor disappeared and it's just black. My PC is a Lenovo ThinkPad X200 Windows XP 32bit SP3.

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