Collegues

Have a box with P4, 1G RAM, 60 Gig HDD dual booting Linux Mint and Debian
Etch 4.0 with GRUB.

Have had a major crash.

Computer worked fine in the morning but later in the day I powered up and
got the GRUB screen showing Mint and Etch selection menu as per normal.

Tried to boot into Etch, which I use normally and after some scrolling text
in a console the system froze with a kernel panic indication.

I did a soft reboot using the computer reset button into Mint and got the
same frozen kernel panic warning.

Inserted a Knoppix Live Distro Disc into the DVD tray and tried a reboot.
The computer recognised the live distro and then froze with the same kernel
panic message whilst trying to boot.

Any thoughts please ...maybe HDD or motherboard ...thanks in advance.

Klang