[IM0001]

OK well i had a problem with the bootloader but thats fixed. The only problem now is this annoying DISABLING IRQ# error
First its #11 i disabled it in the bios, it then is #5, disabled that then its #15. WTF is wrong with mandragke here? Other bootible linuxes work without this error. mandrake installed fine but its almost unuseable because its so slow and stalls every time (i think) its trying to disable these irq's. I cant use mandrake when it took 4 hrs to install and 30 minutes to boot up. and another 5 between programs.

P4 3.0
ASUS P4P800 (seams to be the board. seen this problem elsewere)
1G ram,
80G Samsung
120G Seagate
ATI 9800PRO
Audigy 2 zs
ect.

[danleff]

From what I have read, there seems to be a bios bug with cacheable memory. Take a look at the compatability report here. Is this the -VM model? Are you using sata drives?

[IM0001]

nope. I have just the plain P4P800 board. I also have the latest bios so im not sure what else i should do here. Slax will not work. PClinux takes a while but runs and Mandrake takes a extreme ammount of time to load and run. Guess i need a new system before using Linux.

[danleff]

No, you don't need a new system. No sata drives, right?

If you have grub as the bootloader, try this. While in Mandrake, go to Konqueror in superuser mode. Or if you know about vi, then use vi. Get into /boot/Grub and click on menu.lst.

Look for the first line that says something like;

kernel (hdo,5) vmlinuz root=........

at the end of this line try adding noapic so that you have;

kernel (hdo,5) vmlinuz root=........ noapic

Make sure that their is a space between the last entry and noapic. Save the changes.

Reboot the system and see what happens.

If ths works, then see how your video works also. Post back the results.