Hi, did you try to disable apic and acpi? try booting with the options: noapci acpi=off and .. if this helps, get an bios upgrade if possible. On Don, 28 Sep 2006, dbarker@turing.cs.camosun.bc.ca wrote: > I have an Averatec 3225 laptop which, until recently, has been problem free. -- Florian Reitmeir