Greetings,

I'm new to this forum, so hope I have done this correctly.
I recently bought a new PC and now can't boot into Knoppix v3.6 from the live CD. It still works fine in my old PC, so I assume there is no problem with the CD.
Heres' a description of the problem, followed by some hardware info (hope I have given enough),

Knoppix v3.6
Start in normal mode,
Screen only displays 2 Knoppix logos top left of screen, ie no text at all. Boot stops at this point.

Started in failsafe mode,
Boots to this point,
"
Uniform multi-platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00_beta4-2.4
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus-xx
SIS5513: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:02.5
SIS5513: chipset revision 1
SIS5513: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xffa0-0affa7, BIOS setings: hdaMA, hdbMA
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xffa8-0affaf, BIOS setings: hdcMA, hddMA
"
Boot stops at this point.

HARDWARE,
Motherboard
Manufacturer: MSI
Model : MS-7113
Version: 1.0
Chipset Model: SiS648FX(??) CPU to PCI Bridge
Chipset Vendor: Silicon Integrated Systems (SiS)
CPU: Intel Pentium 4 HT
CPU socket: LGA775 [CPU 1]
Processor Upgrade:
Max CPU speed: 3200 MHz
Slots: 1 PCI, 1 AGP

BIOS
BIOS Date: 05/12/05
BIOS Web page: www.ami.com
BIOS Vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
Version: 080011

CPU
1 physical processor / 2 logical processors
Vendor: GenuineIntel
CPU Full Name: Intel Pentium 4 HT
CPU Name: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.20GHz
Code Name: Prescott-2M
Technology: 0.09µ
Platform Name: LGA775

Devices
CD/DVD Drives,
Hardware IDs IDE\CdRomCyberDrv_CW038D_CD-R/RW (Secondary slave)
Hardware IDs IDE\CdRomBENQ_DVD_DD_DW1640 (Secondary master)
Hard Drives,
Hardware IDs IDE\DiskMaxtor_6Y160P0 (Primary master)
Hardware IDs IDE\DiskSAMSUNG_SV1022D (Primary slave)
RADEON X300/X550 Series Secondary
Device ID PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_5B70&SUBSYS_00311462&REV_00\4&797 C7A&0&0108
Manufacturer ATI Technologies Inc.
RADEON X300/X550 Series
Device ID PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_5B60&SUBSYS_00301462&REV_00\4&797 C7A&0&0008
Manufacturer ATI Technologies Inc.
SiS PCI IDE Controller
Hardware IDs PCI\VEN_1039&DEV_5513&SUBSYS_71131462&REV_01

I'm working toward a LInux installation for this PC, but fell at this first hurdle. I'd appreciate any help.

Thanks.
Bob