Comment 8 for bug 8341

(In reply to comment #7)
> The 686 kernel just froze up on me and did the same thing. I forgot to do
> CTRL-SCROLLLOCK and SHIFT-SCROLLLOCK, but I'm sure it will happen again soon.
> Another strange side effect is that when I do something that causes the pc
> speaker to beep, the beep lasts about 30 seconds. It's very annoying :)

Please boot with noacpi, nolapic, and noapic. Please post the dmesg again.