Hi, Last week i went to buy a new PC. I decided to get an acer aspire ASE700 which comes witch a Quad Intel 6600 Processor, 2 GB RAM and 500GB Harddrive. It seemed to be a pretty good deal for the price they had offered it. Anyways, after playing around with Windows Vista, I would have liked to really use my system and install Suse 10.2 on it. Okay, i downloaded the single CD to install from the net. booted from it - black screen after LILO. Okay I thought, it maybe the CD. I downloaded all the ISOs, burned em and now: The bootmanager comes up, when I select "installation" and "Text Mode" it loads the kernel and gets stuck on "ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (0000:00)" I have no idea what this means but above this it says: "your CPUs had inconsistent fixed MTRR settings ACPI: probably your BIOS does not setup all CPUs. ACPI: corrected configuration. ACPI: Interpreter enabled ACPI: Using IOAPIC for interrupt routing ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (0000:00)" Ctrl-Alt-Del doesn't work anymore Okay, Power-off, Power-on This time I selected "Installation--ACPI Disabled" (and text mode) "loading kernel" seems to be fine but it gets stuck on a screen saying: "PCI: Found IRQ 5 with 0000:00:02.0 PCI: Found IRQ 5 with 0000:00:03.0 PCI: Found IRQ 5 with 0000:00:1a.0 PCI: Found IRQ 5 with 0000:00:1c.0 PCI: Found IRQ 5 for device 0000:00:1c.0 PCI: Found IRQ 5 with 0000:00:01.0 PCI: Found IRQ 5 with 0000:00:02.0 PCI: Found IRQ 5 with 0000:00:03.0 PCI: Found IRQ 5 with 0000:00:1a.0 NET: Registered protocol family 2 Ctrl-Alt-Del doesn't work anymore Okay, Power-off, Power-on This time I selected "Installation--Local APIC Disabled" (and text mode) "loading kernel" seems to be finebut it gets stuck again, this time the screen says: "ACPI Interpreter enabled ACPI: Using PIC for interrupt routing ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (0000:00)" So i really don't know further. Does anyone know any of above messages? I've also tried to boot with following commands: acpi=off acpi=oldboot pci=acpi pci=noacpi acpi=noirq pci=routeirq acpi=force acpi_irq_balance acpi_irq_nobalance apic noapic lapic nolapic but it's all been unsuccesful. May anyone help me to get it installed? It would so much be appreciated! I've asked in alt. os. linux.suse but nobody was able to help me from there... I'm getting desperate... :o Thank you! Ron -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org