With noapic it freezes too. This doesn't occur with 2.6.20.x thought.
The hardware is a Dell OptiPlex 320.
I attached dmidecode/lspci/acpidmp output.
If you need more information, let me know.

Thanks.

Guilherme M. Schroeder
Network Administrator
Central de Vendas Informatica LTDA
Tel.: (11) 3665-2000 Ramal: 2008
http://www.centralinf.com.br

Andi Kleen wrote:
> guilherme <guilherme@centralinf.com.br> writes:
> 
>> Sorry, i put the wrong option in the last mail.
>> The options that freeze my machine at boot is "HPET Timer Support".
> 
> Either an interrupt routing problem or your HPET timer is broken.
> 
> Does it work with noapic? 
> 
> Can you describe your hardware? dmidecode/lspci/acpidmp?
> 
> -Andi
> 
> 
>