Well, i finally installed RH 7.1. I used a minimal install, and changed the screens with ctrl+alt+F1-7. Strangely enough this seemed to get over a crash.
The only error message given was cdrom: open failed. also, during a potential crash, the cdrom stopped spinning. By switching screens he started spinning again.
A full install still isn't possible though, but doing a minimal install and upgrading is.
Anyway thanks for the help
I'm actually typing this in linux
Chantler