Hi, we bought a brand new AMD64-PC with a AMD64 3200, ASUS A8V-E Deluxe and a Geforce 6200 (MSI NX 6200) with 1 GBytes of RAM a Seagate SATA 160 GB harddrive. Actually, we ran into problems while installation. First we were trying with the DVD-Installation (Manual, Install, Install without ACPI, Install safe) the results are always the same. The systems locks up with a beep directly after yast is initialized but not started. Therefore we were trying a real old PCI graphics controller with S3 chipset and we got the same lockup. Then I read here on the list there is a patch CD that solves these SATA problems. Today we tried this new installation CD (Patch_CD_RC3). Actually we got no new results, always this lockup right before yast is starting. So,we tried to disable USB, Firewire, ACPI in the BIOS with no significant result. No ACPI results in "normal installation" locks earlier but installation with "noacpi" still locks before yast. Actually, we tried SUSE 9.1 (64) with the same result. The last test we did was an installation of a pretty old dist (SUSE 8.0 32-Bit) to prove the hardware. This test was successfully. That means the hardware works properly but not with newer distributions. Does anyone realized some problems like this? Is there a solution for this problem? Thank you in advance. with best regards Matthias Hänel