new machine: what's wrong?

[Jack <ifup2k@yahoo.com>]

Hi,

Frustrated with my new machine.  It's a self-assembled machine and it's
the first one I've made.  (PIII, PC133, 128M mem)

Tried to boot from the my old hard-disk,  which has Win98, Win2k,
Debian installed on it.

Win98 could be booted into DOS mode just fine.  Win98 itself (even safe
mode) and Win2k crashed when boot.  Debian failed either.  Here's error
message I got from linux:

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Calibrating delay loop ... 1468.01 BogoMIPS
Memory 127064K/131008K available (1016k Kernel code, 416K reserved,
1680k data, 60k init, OK bigmem)
Dentry hash table entries: 262144(order 9, 2048k)
Buffer cache hash table entries: 131072(order 7, 512k)
Page cache hash table entries: 32768(order 5, 128k)
Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 87fe15a8
current->tss.cr3 = 00101000, %cr3 = 00101000
*pde = 00000000
Oops: 0000
CPU: 0
EIP: 0010[<c011edb0>]
EFLAGS: 00010283
eax:ffffffff ebx:87fe1560 ecxc024cc84 edx c01d57c0
esi:c01d20d7 edi:c01d57c1 ebpc7f317a0 esp: c0229f90
ds 0018 es 0018 ss:0018
Process swapper(pid:0, processs nr:0, stackpage: c0229000)
stack: ......
       ...... (numbers)
Call Trace: [<6106000>] [<c01d57c0>]
            [<c0106000>] [<c0100175>]
Code: 8b 73 48 8b 7c 24 38 fc ac
      ae 75 08 84 c0 75 88 31 c0 eb 04
Kernel panic: Attempted to kill the idle task!
In swapper task - not syncing

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Please help with no-clues:  does it look like a CPU failure, Mem
failure, bad configured CMOS, wrong jumpers on Motherboard?  Any
comments will be very much appreciated!  could provide all model names
of hardware if someone is interested in this case.

thanks for reading.


Jack
ps.  the memory works fine on my old machine,  although the old
motherboard only supports pc100.