new slackware installation freezing

[evablunted]

Yesterday I install Slackware 3.6 on a Compaq Deskpro: 
Pentium II Celeron 333 MHZ with 32 meg ram, 4 gig ide drive 
with a Matrox MGA-G100 AGP video card.

The installation was done on a 2 gig partition on the drive.
The installation went fine without any visible errors.

When it came to booting it up it gets to the login prompt 
and freezes.  I can't even do a control-alt-delete.  I have 
to power down the machine to reboot.

Please
help!