Kernel 2.5, SuSE 8 and AthlonXP/VIA KT266A

Hi, Anyone has any experience (good or bad) with Kernel 2.5, SuSE 8 and AthlonXP/VIA KT266A/nVidia GeForce 2 MX400? I want to use Kernel 2.5 for two main reasons: 1) Time to time I've got a complete freeze of my AthlonXP/VIA KT266A/nVidia GeForce 2 MX400 machine (with 512 MB DDR RAM) for no apparent reason. Nothing work but scroll lock and caps lock LEDs on keyboard begun to blink. I have disabled some options in m/b BIOS, installed latest nVidia drivers, but once per month I am usually got this freeze (in X mode, logged in as andrei, not root). It is not much trouble but after I've got a corruption of ReiserFS root partition. 2) I am need reliable read/write support for NTFS. Thanks in advance for any information. Andrei