...months ago, I started using vmware w/this same setup and, I think it was Aleksandar Milivojevic and directed me to a link to a white paper or whatever w/the tweaks to get me running right. I have issues of typematic and time sync. I believe that the tweaks actually took away the power saving features of the cpu and set the processor at one steady speed. I thought I saved that page somewhere but w/all the confusion and have really been away from this for the most part for months now, I cannot find that page and I have been googling forever on my own to try to find it w/no luck. If anyone could direct me back to it it would be appreciated thx John Rose