The ongoing saga of newer via chipsets and AMD CPU's. Please CC replies as I'm I read here via nntp. Please see my previous PROBLEM reports for hardware info. I compiled and boot 2.4.4ac7, got as far as init. Multiple oops's scrolled off the screen before I could see them. Attached is the final oops, but I have a feeling this is useless. You'll find my config and my attempts to run this oops through ksymoops at various -d levels. Ksymoops never returns from fnmatch or re_match_2, I had to ^C to get a prompt back. I would guess that has to do with eip: 00000000 ... Code: Bad EIP value! HTH If anyone has any further suggestions/patches to run 2.4.x with K7 chosen optimizations, I'm open to testing. Gordon Sadler