Problems booting on a PcChips mainboard

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Well I´m more than a newy in this kind of OS but I want to learn in orther to get free from Mr Bill monster (also call windows). Well here´s the problem I have a PcChips motherboard and i can´t boot Knoppix linux. The processor is a PIII 450Mhz, so you can see it is quite an old computer. I´ve tried putting this when te program starts:
knoppix lang=us screen=1024x768 dma desktop=kde

And the only thing I can see its a penguin in a black screen.

Thanks

Pablo