My T-Bird 1.4GHz refused to run Red Hat 7.2, but all 7.4 & higher versions have been rock solid.

Did you put the noatlon bit in the append section of your lilo? I tried to squeeze RH into my machine before now and only found this out whilst reading the 'help' section that's displayed whilst it's installing.

HTH

I just checked the LKML and poked around the SIS site as you have an SIS735 chipset packaged for you into a motherboard by ECS.

The SIS735 has had some wonky support through the past year since it was introduced... but it should be fine now. About the only thing I found that could still be causing problems is if this machine is running on a rather cheap power supply and one of the higher XPs... maybe. Its probably something else, are you 100% on the drives?

Also, to take care of sound and maybe help out on video, you might want to try this site directly from SIS:

http://www.sis.com/support/driver/linux.htm

Cheers,

Finegan