Mandrake 9.0 Install Problems

[Varient 3.0]

Hi everyone!

If some assistance would be offered, that would be great.
Here's my problem:


I put in my Mandrake 9.0 CD, select boot from CD, then the Mandrake Screen comes up, asking to install, or other options. I prett enter to install, and the screen goes blank, and the caps + scroll lock buttons on my keyboard flash...and that's about it.
Mandrake 8.0 does the same thing; which is funny because both CDs booted my my 333mhz pentium 2 system. Red Hat goes to install screen fine and everything; but I want Mandrake, not Red Hat. Any idea's why this is going on and how to fix...text install goes ok, but it's a pain and I really want graphical.


PS. My specs if needed;

AMD XP 1900
Gigabyte Ga-7VRXP rev 2.0
1024 MB PC 2700 DDR RAM
IBM 120 GXP 120 GB
Sound Blaster Live 5.1
Geforce 4 TI4400
DVD n CDRW drive.
Nvidia GF Ti4400
Samsung Syncmaster 170t ( Digital )

[mdwatts]

Try adding

noapic

at the initial boot/install prompt.

If Mandrake has a 'safe settings' install option, you can also try that.

[Varient 3.0]

Neither of those things worked...I reburned ISOs, yet still the same problem. Red Hat starts graphical install fine though; but that's not what I want to use...