Ok, I've been posting on a couple forums about this and Have had no luck. Maybe someone here can help me out.

I am trying to install Linux on my PC. I've tried SuSE 9.2 and Fedora Core 3.

Here is the PC Setup

MOBO - MSI K7N-PLS Neo2
CPU - Intel P4 2.6Ghz
RAM - 512Mb PC3200
HD - WD IDE 80GB 8mb Cache
Video - Sapphire ATI 9200 Radeon AGP
Onboard Sound
Onboard Realtek LAN 10/100

I have one partition that is 27Gb and has Win XP Pro on it.

HD is Master Primary Chanel , DVD is Master Secondary IDE
The Power management is turned off. and it still seems to be having problems with IRQ 10. Before the program boots to the DVD, the post screen PCI devices are listed and this is listed along with "Onbaord IDE, IRQ 10" Onbard Ethernet is IRQ 5 and AGP VGA IRQ 11. It then scans the DVD drive and boots to the Fedora Core install screen

During the installation this is what I picked out that I though was most likely wrong:

"irq 10: nobody cared! (screaming interrupt?)
irq 10: Please try booting with acpi=off and report a bug
stack pointer is garbage, not printing trace
handlers:
[<c0107da9>]__report_bad_irq+03a/0x77


Disabling IRQ #10
"irq 10: nobody cared! (screaming interrupt?)
irq 10: Please try booting with acpi=off and report a bug
stack pointer is garbage, not printing trace
handlers:
[<c026a957>] (ide_intr+0x0/0x450)
[<c026a957>] (ide_intr+0x0/0x450)
Disabling IRQ #10
"irq 10: nobody cared! (screaming interrupt?)
irq 10: Please try booting with acpi=off and report a bug
stack pointer is garbage, not printing trace
handlers:
[<c026a957>] (ide_intr+0x0/0x450)
[<c026a957>] (ide_intr+0x0/0x450)
Disabling IRQ #10
"irq 10: nobody cared! (screaming interrupt?)
irq 10: Please try booting with acpi=off and report a bug
stack pointer is garbage, not printing trace
handlers:
[<c026a957>] (ide_intr+0x0/0x450)
[<c026a957>] (ide_intr+0x0/0x450)
Disabling IRQ #10
"irq 10: nobody cared! (screaming interrupt?)
irq 10: Please try booting with acpi=off and report a bug
stack pointer is garbage, not printing trace
handlers:
[<c026a957>] (ide_intr+0x0/0x450)
[<c026a957>] (ide_intr+0x0/0x450)

Goes to a screen with different type text font and before it goes to the Media test screen the last loading part looks like this:



Then it finally goes to the media test. and asks if I was
running installer
runnning sbin/loader/
disabling irq 10
disabling irq 10
disabling irq 10
disabling irq 10
disabling irq 10
disabling irq 10

Next is the Media test and says that I can test the CD (even though it is a DVD)

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Here is what happens with SuSE. I boot to the DVD and it goes through the setup where I see the text displaying. It keeps displaying "disabling IRQ 10" over and over and says something about APCI or something. I'll check on that. It checks the files (takes about 10 minutes) and then it checks the hardware (Haven't gotten past this point yet) This is almost 45 mins into the install. I call it quits here.

I cant really help you with your problem but you may want to try knoppix to see if it runs. Knoppix has really great auto-detection. If knoppix cant do it then you are going to have troubles. Also check the HCL (hardware compatablity list) on this site to see if your hardware works well with linux.

i had problem installing suse 9.2, installation always freezed during hardware configuration and displayed "ACPI: IRQ9 SCI: Edge set to level Trigger" finally i found there is bug in ASUS P4G800-E motherboard
so i had no luck installing suse .... but mandrake 10 worked fine
sorry i can't solve your problem .... check hardware.... as tardigrade said

Try SuSE 9.0

I got a version with a Linux Mag I bought. Knoppix 3.7. This is from Linux Format Magazine.. When I put the DVD in to Auto boot, it comes up with an error: Only one processor found

Is this what it is supposed to say?

poor poor mikepg, don't loose faith and resort to a distro you don't want. Have you tried running "acpi=off" as a boot option? I assume so seeing as its what the error is telling you, if so did anything different happen?

thanks alot , i tried acpi off and its working now
here is what i did
keep pressing shift key during boot and at prompt type "noacpi" without quotation marks, maybe this can help mlkepg

I disabled it, as it was always disabled. I aslo tried enabling it as well. I'll try the shift key.

Is it the PCI or the AGP video card that doesn't require an IRQ?