greetings, I'm building a new dual-core AMD system with the following spec: AMD dual-core CPU (4200+) with 1GB of RAM, DFI Ultra-D nforce-4 socket-939 MB with the latest BIOS flashed (June 23) Seagate 160GB SATA BenQ DVDRW Chaintech 5200TC video card (PCIx) With the latest BIOS, dual-core CPU is recognized at POST. MEMtest ran without any problem. I tried to perform FTP installation of Suse 9.3 using the boot.iso. The beginning of the installation went without any problems: I was able to select the packages, etc., and it grabbed the files from my NFS sever, etc. all is fine at this point. However, upon the *1st* reboot of the SUSE installation process, the screen just hang (black) after GRUB boot-loader. I had to perform a hard-reboot. So my question is: does the standard kernel on the Suse 9.3 installation CD support dual-core CPU? I suspect it doesn't and what what causes the black screen. any help is very much appreciated,