James, Is this a production system with a production BIOS? BTW, "Instantly" here isn't actually instantly, it is "before the return from SMM". thanks, Len Brown, Intel Open Source Technology Center -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-pci" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html