emerge fails

[SeaPig]

I just installed gentoo 1.2 from the stage3 tar. The install went fine, but now I am trying to get my desktop installed. After the computer had booted this is what I did:
emerge rsync
emerge kde

after about two hours I noticed that the screen was the same that it had been ten minutes before, so I did a <ctr><alt><f2> planning on logging in and runnig the 'top' to see if it was doing any thing. The second console came up just fine, and I typed in 'root' to log in, but when I hit enter nothing happens. So I went back to the first console, and waited till I was sure that it was not doing any thing( about 20 min) and then reset my computer. I tried it again, but the second time I just emerged x11, and the same thing happeded after about an hour or so. It is like my computer is locked up, but I can go to any of the consols, just can't log in. I don't think it is hardware, because the computer is not actually locking up. any ideas? thanks
-[B-T]seaPig

[SeaPig]

ok, that was strange, my CPU is a AMD 2200+ XP. I underclocked it to 1300 MHZ, and it emerged kde just fine. hmmm.......

I may need to do some more bois tweeking. when I turn it back up.