Hey, Having grown weary of waiting and waiting and waiting for supposed installation support to give any kind of response whatsoever... (apparently responses won't come until after the install support period expires, so what's the point)... 7.3 and 8.0 have run fine on my system. I have a Duron 800Mhz processor on a First AE31 mainboard, with the most recent BIOS update. Something is causing a kernel panic with 8.1. It may run for a while, there's no install problems, but eventually there's a panic and of course that's a system freeze. The problem is I can't figure out what's causing the panic. With a Duron processor, the Athlon kernel is installed by default. Freezes. Tried a new install using the k_deflt kernel instead. It seems to run a bit longer, but I still end up with a freeze. The SuSE support database gives no real clues either. There was one writeup about having both a CD-RW and CD-R with a fix, and I did that. But still the freeze. I doubted that was the problem, though it was an issue for my system. I've tried running it without online updates, and with. Still freeze. The panic occurs at what seems to be random times. Doesn't matter if I'm playing XMMS, or checking my mail. I can find no warnings or anything in any var/log files. I'm beginning to feel like I wasted my money on this Pro 8.1 package. I refuse to believe it's the whole i586/gcc3.2 change, because I've gotten Mandrake 9 and RH8 to both install fine. But I paid for and prefer the SuSE setup, so I don't want to switch to either of those. Is there *any* way to figure out what is causing the kernel panic? Does it write anything *anywhere* before it panics? Thanks, Joe