Quote Originally Posted by cozzy
tried failsafe and expert.

got a black screen with lots of writing,
but I did notice "SMP motherboard not dected" 2 lines from the bottom
the screen then froze, no keys worked, and I had to reset.
Cozzy
Did you boot:

knoppix nosmp

Have you disabled IRQ sharing in the BIOS?
Do you have another monitor to try out?