My first install of suse 9.3 on a dell precision box, smp xeons failed. the yast installer we well. then upon reboot, the system had a kernel panic. I didn't capture all the info on the panic, but it couldn't see anything that looked strange. There was another message after I attempted a reboot on the first kernel panic. It was something about an NMI being stuck on the second cpu... it was rather cryptic. I'm trying another install from scratch. I thought I would check this group to see if there are any special settings I should look at for a smp xeon box -- or specifically a dell precision. -- David Bear phone: 480-965-8257 fax: 480-965-9189 College of Public Programs/ASU Wilson Hall 232 Tempe, AZ 85287-0803 "Beware the IP portfolio, everyone will be suspect of trespassing"