Hello, I've heard of some powermanagement/acpi issues with those laptops under linux and available pci interrupts. Maybe try disabling powermanagement/acpi and see what happens? Not a definite answer, but something one of my friends had run into at one time with that particular laptop model. Maybe also check for a bios update. Try booting and running "tail -f /var/log/messages" and see if anything sticks out when it locks up. -Frd Jerry Geis wrote: > Hi all, > I was just installing centos 5 on my new dv9000 hp laptop. > Installed fine. on first boot, I got through welcome, firewall, selinux > was on date time screen and did Forward to goto next screen (Create User) > and the machines locks up. can ping any more or anything.... > > Any ideas? > > Jerry > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos