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I dont know if it just doesn't like my comp or what but every time i try to install mandrake 10 it just keeps saying

hda lost interupt
hda lost interupt

this takes a long time then it say ...eventually

hda blah blah blah 64x

roughly something like that

then i get to a black screen with commands alt+F1 (here)
alt+F3 last commands (i think can't remember exactly) but i did notice in early install stages that it doesn't recognise my SiS chipset irq handler

i think its my crappy £5 mboard
spec
dont laugh too much plz

asrock k7s8xe
sis 748 chipset
amd 2600+ xp processer
1024mb ddr 400 mem (2 sticks 512)
123.8gb ibm hdd with 8mb cache
liteon cdrw/dvd combo drive
sparkle geforce 5600 ultra 256mb ram g.card

i think that is all the specs you need

any help would be appreciated muchly (thanks in advance)

You could disabling apic in the bios then hitting F1 after it boots from the cd and type, linux noapic nolapic That's a lowercase 'L' in the nolapic line. That possibly might help.

If not you can try installing the 2.4.25 kernel instead of the default 2.6.3 kernel but hitting F1 when it boots from the cd and type alt1 and go from there.

so whats this apic then am i totally dim asking that question?

stands for Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller, its something to do with how the computer/os handle interupts... I should propably know more, but forgot :-)

I had the same problem with it trying to do something to my SATA drives, trying to find a distro that will pick up SATA RAID, I read mandrake did, but had so many probs with the installer I left it (Once I got past waiting ages for the SATA it wouldnt pick up my network card settings properly)

You are my god! I was having trouble installing 10 Official with it locking up at ESR value before enabling vector: 00000002. I'd tried the noapic by itself, but no go. Tried what you suggested with nolapic, and wham bam thank you maam, it worked!

Thank you!!

hmmm looked for apic not in my bios not sure what to do try other options thanx hope it works