Hi,
My system comprises of the following:
a. Intel D850GB Motherboard
b. Intel P-4 1.4 GHz
c. 256MB RDRAM
d. Seagate SCSI (10K rpm) HDD 17.5GB
e. Matrox G450 AGP Card.
f. Creative PCI Sound Card
g. Adaptec SCSI 19160 Card ( for SCSI HDD).
h. Adapetc IDE RAID PCI Card 1200A
i. Seagate 40GB (7200 rpm) IDE HDDS ( qty = 2).
j. Linksys 10/100 PCI LAN Card.

This system was running correctly under Win 2K as well as Win XP-Pro.
Last night I installed RedHat Linux 9.0 on it. Before installtion, all other O/S have been removed, and now only Linux is present on the SCSI HDD. Pls note that I install my O/s and software on SCSI. Now when I start my system 4 out of 5 times it halts while initial messages are appearing. And always following is the message where it gets stuck:

apm:BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x0b (Drive version 1.14)
mxt_scan_bios:enter

Then I deleted Linux 9.0, and installed 7.2 again the same problem is occuring.
Now I removed all cards from the system and at the moment just AGP and LAN card are present. I hv also tried with changing the AGP Card from Matrox to a generic one, but the problem still remains there.

Can anyone advise me of the nature of this error ?

Thanks to all.

your problem is in your bios
Make sure you have selected > Halt on NO ERRORS

I hv checked there is no such HALT ON ERRORS option in the BIOS of this motherboard.

Pls advise

if you have removed all pci cards and your bios fails to boot properly
1st set bios to default values
Remove all hard drives
now try boot any linux install disk or a windows 98 boot disk .
your system should boot. If not double check all jumpers on mainboard if it has some.
Make sure your memory module is correctly in place and blind continuity modules.
If you cant boot still let me know.

Just a quick observation but 'apm' at the beginning of that line most likely refers to advanced power management. Generally that's what apm stands for when dealing with the bios or even an operating system. Just a thought.

Looks like I was sort of on the same track. Check this little link for some good info that should help you get it straightened out. http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/archive/1/2003/02/2/33546