"Leonardo Taccari" <leonardo1990@gmail.com> wrote in message news:20071119041822.GB295@bianconiglio... Hi, I'm not sure what problems ACPI might have, but I've disabled it per your suggestion, and it seems to work. I thought ACPI was a rather fundamental part of the PC, though? It certainly hasn't acted this way before, when I had 3.1 Thanks, Zack.