Let me preface that with I'm a bloody linux and every releated noob and it's been like 5 years so my memory is a little fuzzy:
I never figured out why Ubuntu didn't run but it just didn't, after i got mint working i realized that there are no drivers and a leptop with out touchpad/wifi isn't why I needed it in the first place..
It was an aspite 3 a315-41g. I quickly googled to refresh my memory and I read something about that, I can't recall if I tried it out though. I needed to changed a few settings so maybe I tried.