I know that bug 9356 was labeled a duplicate but that bug was exactly right. It really does cause the computer to hang/lock-up. I found, (after several reinstalls,) that you have to hard-reboot 2 or 3 times to get Ubuntu to load. I know that if my mouse (USB) blinks 2 times I'm usually okay. I went ahead and added this dmesg to let you guys know. he: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line) CPU: L2 Cache: 256K (64 bytes/line) CPU: After all inits, caps: 0383fbff c1c3fbff 00000000 00000020 Intel machine check architecture supported. Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0. CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2600+ stepping 01 Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done. Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done. Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. enabled ExtINT on CPU#0 ESR value before enabling vector: 00000000 ESR value after enabling vector: 00000000 ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs init IO_APIC IRQs IO-APIC (apicid-pin) 2-0, 2-16, 2-17, 2-18, 2-19, 2-20, 2-21, 2-22, 2-23 not connected. ..TIMER: vector=0x31 pin1=2 pin2=-1 Using local APIC timer interrupts. calibrating APIC timer ... ..... CPU clock speed is 2082.0780 MHz. ..... host bus clock speed is 333.0244 MHz. checking if image is initramfs...it isn't (ungzip failed); looks like an initrd Freeing initrd memory: 4360k freed NET: Registered protocol family 16 PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfb4d0, last bus=1 PCI: Using configuration type 1 mtrr: v2.0 (20020519) ACPI: Subsystem revision 20040816 ACPI: Interpreter enabled ACPI: Using IOAPIC for interrupt routing ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (00:00) PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 1 3 4 5 6 7 10 *11 12 14 15) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 1 3 4 *5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 1 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 *12 14 15) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 1 3 4 5 6 7 *10 11 12 14 15) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [ALKA] (IRQs 20) *0, disabled. ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [ALKB] (IRQs 21) *0, disabled. ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [ALKC] (IRQs 22) *0, disabled. ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [ALKD] (IRQs 23) *0, disabled. Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay PnPBIOS: Scanning system for PnP BIOS support... PnPBIOS: Found PnP BIOS installation structure at 0xc00fbfa0 PnPBIOS: PnP BIOS version 1.0, entry 0xf0000:0xbfd0, dseg 0xf0000 PnPBIOS: 14 nodes reported by PnP BIOS; 14 recorded by driver PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:0e.0[A] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 169 ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [ALKB] BIOS reported IRQ 0, using IRQ 21 ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [ALKB] enabled at IRQ 21 ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:10.0[A] -> GSI 21 (level, low) -> IRQ 177 ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:10.1[B] -> GSI 21 (level, low) -> IRQ 177 ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:10.2[C] -> GSI 21 (level, low) -> IRQ 177 ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:10.3[D] -> GSI 21 (level, low) -> IRQ 177 ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [ALKA] BIOS reported IRQ 0, using IRQ 20 ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [ALKA] enabled at IRQ 20 ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:11.1[A] -> GSI 20 (level, low) -> IRQ 185 ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [ALKD] BIOS reported IRQ 0, using IRQ 23 ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [ALKD] enabled at IRQ 23 ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:12.0[A] -> GSI 23 (level, low) -> IRQ 193 ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:01:00.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 201 number of MP IRQ sources: 15. number of IO-APIC #2 registers: 24. testing the IO APIC....................... IO APIC #2...... .... register #00: 02000000 ....... : physical APIC id: 02 ....... : Delivery Type: 0 ....... : LTS : 0 .... register #01: 00178003 ....... : max redirection entries: 0017 ....... : PRQ implemented: 1 ....... : IO APIC version: 0003 .... IRQ redirection table: NR Log Phy Mask Trig IRR Pol Stat Dest Deli Vect: 00 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00 01 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 39 02 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 31 03 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 41 04 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 49 05 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 51 06 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 59 07 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 61 08 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 69 09 001 01 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 71 0a 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 79 0b 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 81 0c 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 89 0d 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 91 0e 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 99 0f 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 A1 10 001 01 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 C9 11 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00 12 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00 13 001 01 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 A9 14 001 01 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 B9 15 001 01 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 B1 16 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00 17 001 01 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 C1 Using vector-based indexing IRQ to pin mappings: IRQ0 -> 0:2 IRQ1 -> 0:1 IRQ3 -> 0:3 IRQ4 -> 0:4 IRQ5 -> 0:5 IRQ6 -> 0:6 IRQ7 -> 0:7 IRQ8 -> 0:8 IRQ9 -> 0:9 IRQ10 -> 0:10 IRQ11 -> 0:11 IRQ12 -> 0:12 IRQ13 -> 0:13 IRQ14 -> 0:14 IRQ15 -> 0:15 IRQ201 -> 0:16 IRQ169 -> 0:19 IRQ185 -> 0:20 IRQ177 -> 0:21 IRQ193 -> 0:23 .................................... done. highmem bounce pool size: 64 pages VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1 Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes) devfs: 2004-01-31 Richard Gooch (