Hi gang... Just bought a new box for DAW stuff.. Got MDK 10.0 all installed and updated...Got all the cool apps installed and working ok. The ASUS mobo is an A7V8X-MX SE with Athalon +2500. It runs an Award Pheonix Bios which is not as extensive on options as some of my other boxes... This mobo has only 3 PCI slots and 1 AGP. It's a mini form factor case and board. I have shuffled the card from slot to slot, stopped the kernel loading the USB modules (*I don't need 'em anyway), messed with all relevant BIOS settings (Assign IRQ's, APIC, etc) and I cannot get this card (Delta 1010LT)onto an Interrupt lower than 10. cat /proc/interrupts 0: 486023 XT-PIC timer 1: 1990 XT-PIC i8042 2: 0 XT-PIC cascade 8: 1 XT-PIC rtc 10: 0 XT-PIC ICE1712 11: 14687 XT-PIC eth0 12: 7242 XT-PIC i8042 14: 11595 XT-PIC ide0 NMI: 0 LOC: 486014 ERR: 546 MIS: 0 Any thoughts...I also tried the APIC options in LILO... Is it really necessary to even have it on a lower Interrupt...I mean are the benefits substantial or miniscul and not worthy of 20 hrs of boot / halt / boot, etc... Thanks in advance R~