Somebody in the thread at some point said: >> ram: 4GB > In these types of situations, I try to shoot for the lowest common > denominator - I'd probably remove all but one stick of RAM, any That might give two chances to do something helpful since the box has 4GB, in case that is enough to cause the trouble. I think you can give kernel commandline options on the prompt before the install (just try Fedora 7), since the disease seems to involve a widespread inability to work the various peripherals like USB I would think about trying pci=bios pci=nobios pci=biosirq pci=noacpi pci=assign-busses acpi=off clocksource=tsc The last is because the soft lockup was involving the hpet clocksource. Also have a meddle in the BIOS options, things like "legacy USB support" being enabled brings on madness on some boxes. -Andy
