Johannes Stezenbach wrote: >This has nothing to do with DVB. Try booting with noapic or >acpi=noirq (see linux/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt). > Excellent. acpi=noirq worked beautifully. I'm off to track down if there is a BIOS upgrade for my motherboard. In the meantime, that you very much for taking the time to solve my problem! -- Barry Myles