Kernel 2.4.x hangs on ASUS motherboard

Hi all
i have a problem with all 2.4 kernels
i tried rh 7.1 , 7.2 setup & compiled the kernel but it always hangs after detecting the hard disk controllers giving me a blinking cursor and i have to press reset to reboot the PC
tried to boot with the cdrom with hda=noprobe and it worked fine but no block drive to install on, tried to boot with a floppy passing hdd=noprobe but it hanged
hda --> my hard drive
hdd --> cdrom
i think it's a problem with the hard drive configuration?
my motherboard is ASUS SP97-XV

thanks for any help

here is the kernel messages

ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.13) Real Time Clock Driver v1.09
RAM disk driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size
SIS5513: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 09
SIS5513: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later

    ide0: BM-DMA at 0xd000-0xd007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA 
    ide1: BM-DMA at 0xd008-0xd00f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:DMA 

hda: WDC WD200EB-00CSF0, ATA DISK drive
hdb: WDC AC34300L, ATA DISK drive
hdd: ASUS CD-S520/A, ATAPI CDROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15

=========== HANG HERE ==============
hda: WDC WD200EB-00CSF0, 19092MB w/2048kB Cache, CHS=2434/255/63
hdb: WDC AC34300L, 4104MB w/256kB Cache, CHS=523/255/63

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