Well, now I'm REALLY puzzled. I had already checked everything in the BIOS exhaustively, but I'll go back and have another look. I've managed to install 7.3 with no trouble at all on my wife's Pentium-III computer -- but the best that I have been able to do on my Pentium-4 machine is to install it DEFECTIVELY (as described in my original message) by using SuSE's adjusted-image bootdisk for version 7.0

The bug that caused problems with the P4 was fixed several revisions of 2.4 ago. Have you tried booting is safe mode? Using the install image for 7.0 probably will not work, since it is put together for the 7.0 distribution only. Can you post the results of using the 7.3 install in safe mode? Rafael