I'm running the same basic setup and here are my interrupts. Have you reset your plug and pray system BIOS, and set your BIOS to a PnP operating system? CPU0 0: 134303 XT-PIC timer 1: 2173 XT-PIC keyboard 2: 0 XT-PIC cascade 5: 890 XT-PIC eth0 8: 1 XT-PIC rtc 9: 0 XT-PIC usb-uhci, usb-uhci 10: 53403 XT-PIC eth1, via82cxxx 11: 14 XT-PIC aic7xxx 12: 19489 XT-PIC PS/2 Mouse 14: 22812 XT-PIC ide0 15: 3926 XT-PIC ide1 -- jludwig <wralphie@xxxxxxxxxxx>