I'm having a go round with Dell support people about what appears to me to be a hardware problem on a 6400 server box. We have 1 slot in this box that if we put any cards in, the box will lock up. It's a 33Mhz 32/64 bit slot of which there are 4. We have 2 of our own cards in adjacent slots. We have suspected an apic problem with their bios because of a known apic/irq0 problem with their bios that there is a kernel patch for and does in fact fix. We suspect there are more bios bugs in their board/bios. They insist (as always) that the problem is not theirs. They say that we have to run an "Enterprise kernel" to get support for 4 processors. Is that a crock or what? What this "slot" problem has to do with the kernel is beyond me. Either way I was wondering if anyone knows of specific things in SuSE Enterprise kernel that could possibly help with this kind of thing. I can see that is is a 2.4.7 kernel from the info in their site. Is there anyway to get a copy of it without buying the $1000 package? Is Dell giving me a line of sh#t. We have tried MANY kernels and also even Red Hat 7.2 like Dell says they support. We are back to using SuSE 7.3 with a vanilla 2.4.18 kernel. We have tried all the SuSE kernels available. I think we have been wasting time trying all these different kernels. Sorry if this is OT. I know that there are many knowledgeable people and SuSE people watching this list and I am just looking for advise/help. Thanks in advance Mark