yes, I wonder though, I do not have a space between append and the first quote mark. I do not believe this is an issue though. THis board is using the AMD chip set. I'll have to check but it has a chip set called North Bridge and another South Bridge, but can't recall who makes that. Got to pull the manual and check. Oh, and no it did not work. I am going to try to compile the kernel with K6 instead of Pentium and suspect this makes no difference at all. Anything is worth trying. hmmm tnx