My best guess is that the two graphic adapters confuse sax2 in such a way that freezes. You've got one option left and that is to manually edit xorg.conf.

To remove the old installation, I'd use the rescue system or a LiveCD to erase it completely (delete all previous partition and re-format).

Everything in BIOS is set to where it should be.

Devices and I/O ports - Video Setup - Select active video = [PCI]
Palette Snooping = [Disabled]
Video Interupt = [Enabled]

Advanced Options - PCI Control = [Enabled]
Plug and Play Control - Plug and Play Operating System = [Yes]

I think part of the problem, is that under Devices and I/O ports - Video Setup, the first statement is 'Active Video Intel 815 Chipset Video BI'. This statement cannot be changed! Select Active Video, can be changed and has been changed to [PCI]. So, how can the active video be the i815, yet Select Active Video be [PCI]? How can it be both? This makes no sense to me! THAT, I think, is the main problem. Linux is seeing that the i815 is the active video, yet it also states that the PCI is also the active video, (the FX 5200). This is why (I believe) that Linux is showing both when I type in 'sax2 -p' at the terminal. This is probably why Yast crashes to a black screen when I try to enter 'Video Card and monitor' settings in Yast.

So, at this point, I just want to get the remastered 10.1, then install it. BUT, the 10.1 that is in there now, won't allow an over-write as it says it can't read the CD-ROM drive, once it loads the welcome screen and offers the choice to either boot from HD, install new etc. How can it say that it can't read the CD-ROM drive, when it read the drive in order to load the welcome screen and load the kernel?
Now, instead of going through 'can't mount CD-ROM drive', I just want to go to the command line or something and uninstall Linux that way. This way, I have a blank slate to start from. How can this be done? I have looked online all over the place and there are people asking the same question. How to uninstall Linux? But, there are never any answers. I find this unusual!

What's a remastered 10.1? Did they release a new version?
If this one doesn't recognize your cd drive, but the old one does, then there's something wrong with the medium. If the old one doesn't work either, but it used to do before, then in my eyes the only source of error can be the BIOS or even worse - your hardware.

How do you uninstall Windows? Or any OS? In most cases you simply whipe out it's partition. I don't find this unusual, as the OS is an essential part of the system, where it doesn't make sense to offer de-installation routines.

I have the dual VGA 5200 card and it also sometimes crashes the machine. When I run Hardware Information from YaST one of the monitors dies. This also happens when I have tried to use Sax2. I wound up just configuring xorg.conf by hand.

Can you post the method you used to do that?

My CD drive works fine, until the screen comes up where it asks you if you want to install new, update existing OS etc. This never happened, until I updated the kernel. It has to read the drive, in order to load the kernel from the disk. This is what is confusing. The CD drive also works fine while the OS is loaded, such as right now. I can listen to CD's, play games etc. So, the hardware is fine, it is the OS that is screwed up somehow. I can't overwrite it, because of the failure to mount during an attempt to overwrite.