None of the distros work on my computer(s)...

[tiredofwindows]

The title basically says it all.

This is the THIRD forum that I'm posting this problem to, because I found that the other two are no good when it comes to asking for help about installation problems. I'm hoping here would be a lot better.

I originally tried to install OSx86 on my laptop. I was told Kalyway and iDeneb were very good distros. I tried them, and neither of them work. Kalyway freezes before the gray Apple screen and reboots my computer, and iDeneb freezes at the gray Apple screen. The spinning loading thing is [u]nowhere to be found[u] and it just hangs there forever. It doesn't load into the installation screen. My DVD drive spins down and everything just stops. I tried iPC and Hazard as well, when I realized this was happening. iPC gives me some kind of bogus kernel panic, and Hazard does the same thing Kalyway did.I'm thinking it's something with the bootloader. If theres someone who can help me with that I would greatly appreciate it. Which brings me to my second problem


Finding out that nothing was working on my laptop, I decided to see if it would work on one of my old Desktops. I tried first with my IBM NetVista. Something with the graphics card wasn't working and it looked like my monitor was broken. iDeneb installed but after it restarted, Darwin would boot and then my computer would restart. I tried -x, -s and nothing worked. Then, I tried iAtkos 5i on my other desktop, a HP Media Center, and the graphics worked fine, it was just the same thing happened with iDeneb on my other desktop. It would install but then it wont boot into the OS, it would just restart.


Laptop:
Acer Aspire 5251
AMD V-Series V120 Processor 2.2GHz
ATI Radeon HD 4250 Graphics

Desktop 1:
IBM (Lenovo) NetVista 8310
Intel Pentium 4 2.4GHz
Intel 845G Graphics

Desktop 2
HP Media Center 863n
Intel Pentium 4 2.53GHz
GeForce4-MX420 Graphics

If I can actually get some kind of direction or help, it would be greatly appreciated. I'd really like some help with putting it on my laptop. I'm a newbie when it comes to this so some direction on how to tell if it's the bootloader, how to change something so it would work with my graphics card, etc. would be appreciated.