Red Hat 8.0 Compaq Armada 7400 When I login after a shutdown power off, I get the following message. Everything seams to work. I think it's sound but I'm not sure. In any case I find the word "Spurious" to be very humorous in this case. It's a computer for crying out loud! :o) Spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ 7 I googled it and found the following link and several others. http://www7.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/~ksjh/research/cluster/timesync/sprint.html Sam. _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list