i was hoping that the 1400 smp kernel might break the bad luck i've had with all the 13xx smp kernels where processes starting hanging and eventually the whole machine locks up and has to be rebooted. the machine is a dell poweredge 2400 with two 1ghz processors and 1gbyte of memory ... that was originally shipped with redhat 7.0 installed and worked fine with smp kernels up until 13xx. the 1400 smp kernel can hang after initial boot but during KDE initializing (and require rebooting) ... or sometimes it will get thru KDE initializing and run for 5-10 minutes before hung processes and requiring rebooting. note that the 1400 non-smp (single processor) kernel (and prior non-smp 13xx kernels) run fine on the machine w/o process hanging and requiring rebooting.