Fedora Core 2 freezes on Dell Latitiude LS400

Wed Jul 21 17:56:34 UTC 2004

I loaded Fedora Core2 from the ftp.redhat.com site on my dell
latitude.
it loads up until the Login screen, then once i enter my username and
password, it freezes midway through. I tried KDE and GNOME and they
both freeze

any ideas why? i'm eager to get started with Linux.

Display is a NeoMagice MagicGraph256AV
Pentium 3

it works fine on Windows XP. i hate xp though :-0