CentOS - Apr 2009 - booting 5.3 on a770 biostar

I am booting 5.3 on an a770 biostar motherboard
THe machine boots, I get the prompt from the DVD
I hit return and the screen says kernel alive but it never gets past that.

I tried booting again with noprobe on the command line same thing.
I tried booting again with noprobe and noapic nolapic and same thing.

Any thoughts on how to get past the halting??

Thanks,

Jerry