Hello, Kirk. http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/wessels_noapic.html On my IBM 704 server, the 8.1 Pro installation worked great, but post-install the RAID cards simply wouldn't work. APIC was switched off during installation, but enabled for the regular boot up. Once I added the line to disable it, the RAID cards started working immediately. I found that "noapic" worked for me, whereas "disableapic" made no difference. Did you do the system erase before trying to install SuSE ? The BIOS has a field for what OS is going to be installed, and it makes slight differences. We had a Proliant 2500 that would refuse to have W2K Server installed if the BIOS was set up for W2K, but would work perfectly as soon as we switched it to make it think we were putting NT on it. Bye for now, Stuart. -----Original Message----- From: Kirk Moore @ Speakeasy [mailto:mouserkm@speakeasy.net] Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2003 13:48 To: stuart@yorkshirepudding.com Subject: Re: [SLE] Compaq 1850r Its hanging on the Network card... I have been told this is a common problem. I do have the latest P07, and have SmartServ 5.50 The system is coming from a Windows 2000 Adv Srv setup, and has worked flawlessly.... question: How do you disable the APIC? <snip>