ya, I still have 3 of these :) dmesg is showing something I've never seen before though: FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 2 CPUs cpu0 (BSP): APIC ID: 3 cpu1 (AP): APIC ID: 0 ACPI-0698: *** Warning: Type override - [DEB_] had invalid type (Integer) for Scope operator, changed to (Scope) ACPI-0698: *** Warning: Type override - [MLIB] had invalid type (Integer) for Scope operator, changed to (Scope) ACPI-0698: *** Warning: Type override - [DATA] had invalid type (String) for Scope operator, changed to (Scope) ACPI-0698: *** Warning: Type override - [SIO_] had invalid type (String) for Scope operator, changed to (Scope) ACPI-0698: *** Warning: Type override - [SB__] had invalid type (String) for Scope operator, changed to (Scope) ACPI-0698: *** Warning: Type override - [PM__] had invalid type (String) for Scope operator, changed to (Scope) ACPI-0698: *** Warning: Type override - [ICNT] had invalid type (String) for Scope operator, changed to (Scope) ACPI-0698: *** Warning: Type override - [ACPI] had invalid type (String) for Scope operator, changed to (Scope) ACPI-0698: *** Warning: Type override - [LEDP] had invalid type (String) for Scope operator, changed to (Scope) ACPI-0698: *** Warning: Type override - [WUES] had invalid type (String) for Scope operator, changed to (Scope) ACPI-0698: *** Warning: Type override - [WUSE] had invalid type (String) for Scope operator, changed to (Scope) ACPI-0698: *** Warning: Type override - [CSB5] had invalid type (String) for Scope operator, changed to (Scope) ACPI-0698: *** Warning: Type override - [PM__] had invalid type (String) for Scope operator, changed to (Scope) ACPI-0698: *** Warning: Type override - [BIOS] had invalid type (Integer) for Scope operator, changed to (Scope) ACPI-0698: *** Warning: Type override - [CMOS] had invalid type (Integer) for Scope operator, changed to (Scope) MADT: Forcing active-low polarity and level trigger for SCI Its an Intel motherboard ... ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email . scrappy@hub.org MSN . scrappy@hub.org Yahoo . yscrappy Skype: hub.org ICQ . 7615664