Try booting with some cheat codes:
knoppix nodma
knoppix acpi=off
Its is probably the DMA which is turned on by default that is causing the problems.
Try booting with some cheat codes:
knoppix nodma
knoppix acpi=off
Its is probably the DMA which is turned on by default that is causing the problems.

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