I get this from dmesg running FC5 2.6.18-1.2200.fc5smp. The machine seems to be stable (was crashing very frequently before this kernel in FC). Also yes I know to boot with noapci as a kernel parameter to most likely get rid of this error. I am still curious as to what it means. ACPI Exception (acpi_processor-0681): AE_NOT_FOUND, Processor Device is not present [20060707] ACPI: Getting cpuindex for acpiid 0x2 ACPI Exception (acpi_processor-0681): AE_NOT_FOUND, Processor Device is not present [20060707] ACPI: Getting cpuindex for acpiid 0x3 Also hyperthreading is disabled in the bios as the machine refuses to boot if it is enabled with this kernel and all previous FC5 kernels panic on this machine. Memory is fine also no errors after ~90 hours of memtest86+. The motherboard and processors are new also. -- Adam Hough High Performance Computing ahough@xxxxxxx