I'm having the same (or similar) problem and have spent some time experimenting with various things.
I have an ASUS A7N8X Deluxe mainboard (set at 333MHz fsb), Athlon XP2500+ cpu, 1 gig of DDR RAM, Radeon 9200 video card, a Sil 0680 UltraATA133 pci drive controller with one 60Gb, one 80Gb, one 120Gb, and one 250Gb Maxtor drives, plus a Hitachi DVD-ROM, and a Lite-On CD/DVD writer.
I've experimented with removing various drives, RAM, controllers, but 10CE freezes at random points during installation (9.2 installs and runs perfectly).
So far, the only method I have that allows 10CE to install and run is to reduce my fsb to 200MHz, but then the CPU is detected as an Athlon 1100... Not an ideal solution, but it works. Also 10CE only detects 800 some odd Mb RAM and does a kernel panic when I set mem=1024M
I finally did get 10CE installed by crippling my computer, but I have to keep it crippled to run. If i set my fsb back to 333MHz, it locks up a few seconds after booting. As a result, I'm mostly using 9.2 as it allows me to run with everything optimized.
If I ever manage to find a solution, I'll post back, but it doesn't seem likely.
As a side note, I used the same install CD's to install 10CE on my Inspiron 8500 laptop (P4 2.0GHZ 512 DDR RAM) and almost everything worked perfectly with the possible exception of the modem which I never use and haven't tested. But when the laptop is run from the port replicator through a KVMP switch, when I switch away from it and return later, my keyboard and mouse (both USB) no longer respond... I have to restart X to get them back... So I deleted 10CE and went back to 9.2 on the laptop as well.
As a whole, I like 10CE, if only it could be made to function properly on modern computers the way the older versions did.
