Will somebody help me with this Kernel Failure?

[Hartley]

I recently installed Fedora 10 into a new PC setup, its at my school so I am unsure of what graphics card is installed but, There 4gb of RAM and a 3.0Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo vPro processor.

Everytime I boot up I get this kernel failure message instantly.

Kernel failure message 1:
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WARNING: at arch/x86/kernel/hpet.c:286 hpet_legacy_next_event+0x40/0x59() (Tainted: G W)
Modules linked in: ip6t_REJECT nf_conntrack_ipv6 ip6table_filter ip6_tables ipv6 cpufreq_ondemand acpi_cpufreq dm_multipath uinput ppdev parport_pc snd_hda_intel snd_seq_dummy parport snd_seq_oss snd_seq_midi_event snd_seq snd_seq_device snd_pcm_oss snd_mixer_oss snd_pcm tpm_infineon e1000e snd_timer snd_page_alloc snd_hwdep tpm snd soundcore pcspkr tpm_bios video output wmi floppy ata_generic pata_acpi [last unloaded: microcode]
Pid: 0, comm: swapper Tainted: G W 2.6.27.5-117.fc10.i686.PAE #1
[<c06b28cb>] ? printk+0xf/0x14
[<c0431d78>] warn_on_slowpath+0x47/0x70
[<c0447129>] ? sched_clock_tick+0x97/0xa0
[<c06b4723>] ? _spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x22/0x38
[<c04478b4>] ? getnstimeofday+0x3c/0xc9
[<c0445c92>] ? ktime_get_ts+0x4a/0x4e
[<c051f649>] ? __next_cpu+0x15/0x25
[<c0428d0f>] ? find_busiest_group+0x2a8/0x716
[<c044b1f4>] ? tick_program_event+0x22/0x29
[<c04478b4>] ? getnstimeofday+0x3c/0xc9
[<c041da48>] hpet_legacy_next_event+0x40/0x59
[<c044a292>] clockevents_program_event+0xd4/0xe3
[<c044b13d>] tick_dev_program_event+0x28/0x95
[<c044ac71>] tick_broadcast_oneshot_control+0x95/0xed
[<c044a681>] tick_notify+0x1fb/0x30b
[<c06b68b2>] notifier_call_chain+0x2b/0x4a
[<c0446557>] raw_notifier_call_chain+0xc/0xe
[<c044a06f>] clockevents_notify+0x21/0x4e
[<c056dd77>] acpi_state_timer_broadcast+0x31/0x34
[<c056e3f4>] acpi_idle_enter_simple+0xa1/0x19d
[<c0622181>] cpuidle_idle_call+0x67/0x97
[<c0407c4d>] cpu_idle+0x101/0x134
[<c06a3a46>] rest_init+0x4e/0x50
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Theres about 5 of them, but they all look the same.

Any help at at would be appreciated. thank you!

[ptb]

I'd suggest finding more out about the hardware (especially mobo) and doing some research.. I had a similar problem with my laptop that ended up requiring a custom kernel to install.

Good luck

[marko]

By "instantly" do you mean at the point it hits starting the graphical stuff? Try appending a 3 to the kernel line in the grub menu so you boot to runlevel 3. When booting hit ESC so you can see the menu, pick the kernel you want and hit the 'e' key to edit the kernel line, put the 3 at the end of the line starting with "kernel", press Enter to accept that and 'b' to boot.

If you get to boot up ok in runlevel three try to update your system (Is this system fully updated?) or if updated already, try to now load X by typing "startx" at the command prompt. See if that starts X ok.