thanks roisoft. Yes, as I've explained earlier, I've installed zephyroth from DVD-ROM before, and I booted it from grub installed on my linux partition on the first hard drive. I could get the login screen and it would let me fill out my account information, then it would crash. When rebooted and tried to login, I kept getting kicked out of the desktop and back to the login screen again.

I'm trying the install from my external hard drive as of now, so I'm waiting to see if it fixed the problem. If not, I'll try the iATKOS amd patches, because some people have reported success.