I need some help from a linux guru

[Smiling Carnivore]

I am in the process of building several inexpensive systems in an attempt to make a floppy to network booting cluster. Here is my problem, my server box, currently running Slackware 7.1 and using the 2.2.16 kernel will run fine for a little while and then kick out the following error:

Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000008
current->tss.cr3 = 00101000, %cr3 = 00101000
*pde = 00000000
Oops: 0000
CPU: 0
EIP: 0010:[<c0120978>]
EFLAGS: 00010082
eax:00090000 ebx:c5b45920 ecx:00000000 edx:c5bd5920
esi:c77ff5c2 edi:00000282 ebp:c5ab1f14 esp:c5ab1ee0
ds: 0018 es:0018 ss:0018
Process ghclient.x (pid: 321,process nr: 29,stackpage=c5ab1000)
Stack: c5b45920 c5ab1f14 c5bd5920 c0002800 c0117240 c77ff5c2 c5b45920 c5ab0000 00000002 00000002 00000100 00000008 c5ab0000 c5ab1fbc c010903d 0000002 c5ab0000 000004e8 081d1080 c5aaf818 c5ab1f3c cgab03a8 c5ab1fc4 00000002
Call Trace: {<c0117240>] [<c010903d>] [<c01c0000>] [<c010a12d>] [c01c02b3>] [<c01bb286>] [<c0118459>] [<c010a266>] [<c010919c>]
Code: 8b 69 08 81 fd 2b 2f c3 a5 0f 85 d9 00 00 00 8b 69 0c 85 ed
Segmentation fault

/end error message

and after that the system is hardlocked and I can't do anything with it. Reinstalls don't work. Occaisionally I will get it during the install. I have tried both Slackware 7.1 and 8.0. I have done installations on other computers with these disks so I know the OS disks aren't borked. Also ran WD's diagnostic program on the HDD and it showed as clear. System is as follows

Motherboard: Azza 361BS
onboard video, audio, (it is advertised as onboard LAN, but all they do is toss a pci ethernet card in the box)
Proc: 1Ghz Duron
HDD: 20GB Western Digital
3.5" FDD
56x CDROM
256MB RAM

Any help would be appreciated, I have been pulling my hair out for well over a week with this thing. Anyone have any ideas?

[IronBits]

It's a long one, so get it all on one line... seems like a real bad bug

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[guru]

Try using Caldera eDesktop 2.4. It runs a similar kernel and I've been running it on my web server for 2 years without a problem.