hello, i second the no-hlt (i think it needs the dash) kernel option. i have also have a kt133 motherboard at home, with an AMD tbird. i had the same noise problems when moving the mouse. adding the no-hlt option made it dissapear for me (YMMV) so i'd say reboot and find out ;-) good luck, ALEX --- tim hall <tech@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thursday 12 February 2004 10:47 pm, Dave Phillips wrote: > > The > > mouse is definitely a noise-maker: I move, I get a not-nice ripping > > noise that tracks along with the mouse movement. > > I boot (using lilo & Debian) with the > append="no hlt" > option. Have you tried this? > > It helped me with graphics-related noise. > I don't know whether this works on a RH based system. > > tim hall > ___________________________________________________________ BT Yahoo! Broadband - Free modem offer, sign up online today and save ?80 http://btyahoo.yahoo.co.uk