Alright then.......

I had Slack 9.0 installed with multi-boot of XP Pro. (lilo is on the floppy)

When all of a sudden..

I try to boot up and BOOM!!!!

divider error:0000
cpu: 0
EIP: 0010 :[<c0107063>} Not Tainted
EFLAGS: 00000246
eax: 00000000 ebc: c0107040 ecx: 00000032 edx: 00000019
esi:c0340000 dei: c0340000 ebp: ffffe000 esp: c0341fe0
ds:0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018
Process swapper (pid:0 stakpage: 0341000)
stack: c0107102 00010809 000079800 c0105000 0004e000 c03426b2 c035f6e0 c0100191
Call Trace: [<c0107102>] [<c0105000>]
code: c3 8d 6b 00 00 00 00 8d bf 00 00 00 00 fb eb 0d 90 90 90 90
<0> Kernel panic: Attempted to kill the idle task!
In idle task - not syncing
<6> Keyboard: unknown scan code e0 7a


In addition the Caps lock and the Scroll lock LED's flash in sync. and everything is locked solid.

I attempted to boot off the DVD that came with Linux Format Mag and the same error occurs when the kernel unpacks from the CD.

I have replaced the RAM (512 DDR) in a P4 1.6a and also blown all the ext3 and swap partitions for a reinstall.

An OS independant scan of the drives and hardware show everything is working fine.

I did go into the bios and make sure that the memory speeds matched the actual and switched everyting that was set to "auto" to a manual config and still nada

Now I am at a point where I can't even reinstall....this blows..
Any hints would be very helpful


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