I left the computer on over night and I have not had a "lockup" This morning I was going through the motherboard booklet and could find nothing about installing Vista or being Vista ready. I installed Vista and it installed OK, although it does write all over the mbr where the grub/lilo loaders are installed to. This was easily fixed so that I have a dual boot system. This proves I think that this motherboard is hpet ready so Anders and a couple of others were correct in there thinking that hpet is not at fault. On 5 other computers that my friends own they could not install Vista without it playing up as their motherboards were too old and don't have hpet which from what I have read Vista needs for some internal workings. That brings me back to whether its the Nvidia drivers. When I first installed SuSE 10.3 I didn't have the PCIE GeForce NVidia card but had onboard graphics. This was the DeltaChrome 9 which did not have any real drivers to start with and SuSE installed some drivers and the lockups started. So I bought the GeForce NVidia 7300 LE. SuSE correctly saw the card and installed the nv card drivers. This is where the so called lockups were not so fierce or so often. But even so 10 lockups a day is not right. I may have to backdown to one of the 173.14.05 drivers just to stop this from happening. I can't get any work done at this rate. Just had a 2 minute lockup. Top showed nothing as it stopped working during the lockup. Just checked the /var/log/messages and nothing is there during the "lockup" time I noted from my digital clock. -- Clive. http://homepage.ntlworld.com/c.rogers/ Fighting for darker skies. From 52:26:29ºN 01:27:46ºW (Coventry, UK) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org