->I run almost the same setup, except I have a Asus A7N8X mobo with the Athlon 2500 overclocked to 2100Mhz @ 200Mhz fsb on Fedora with the CCRMA 2.4.26-1.ll kernel. The problem I always run into is that my setup will not run the low latency (ll) "athlon" kernel without locking up like you described. I have found that if I manually install the i686 kernel and ALSA from the CCRMA rpms, it will boot just fine and is very stable. In other words don't use apt-get to install the kernel and ALSA because it will always pick the Athlon versions. I haven't found any problems using apt-get after the kernel,alsa rpm installation, although when a new kernel comes out you do have to install it manually.<- Thanks to everyone who responded. My friend Kevin Ernste pointed me to one of many forum threads which talk about using "noapic nolapic" (hey, that's a good rhyme!) as kernel arguments for the nforce2 chipset. Like this one: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?s=&postid=1035056#post1035056 I did that early this morning (actually, I just passed nolapic so far), and have not had a single problem at the normal clock speed, throwing everything I could at it. I had qjackctl open running alsaplayer into a simple jack-rack amplifier into freqtweak into a rezound record, while burning a CD, encoding an mp3, and playing with Celestia. Aside from Celestia and the mp3 encoder being fairly slow and the cpu temp reaching 41C during that episode, everything seems pretty solid. Thanks, Matt
