My dead S-M motherboard is not so dead. Short between the seat and keyboard :-) I'm running into some problems booting up tho. When kudzu runs, it finds all the stuff from the Tyan board that the super micro board does not have. I've told it to remove the configurations for all those things, but kudzu never goes into the probing for new devices after removing, but halts or hangs at "enabling swap space". Nothing happens after that. Prior to all this tho, in the boot screen I see the message that ACPI cannot find the RSDP ?? whatever that is. Ok.. this time I didn't do anything, but just let it progress into the bootup, and it continues and completes, gives me a login, etc., like everything is OK. What should I do to get kudzu to remove all the stuff that is not there now, and find the new hardware? Thanks much.... Sam -- Snowman