I've tried over 30 distros and none will boot or install, always giving me a screen full of op-code errors and a Kernel Panic.

So I tried to switch to openSUSE 10.2 since SuSE 10.0 32/64 and openSUSE 10.1 32 are the only ones I've been able to install on this system, but then it tries to load ATIIXP and freezes?

10.0 and 10.1 show the errors but keep on going. . .

eMachine C6207
AMD Athlon 64 3400+
MSI RS480 MS-7145 v2.1
Award - Pheonix Bios v1.09 ($30 for an upgrade!)