I was tailing /var/log/messages today and this popped up: Aug 29 16:25:09 ostraya kernel: spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7. Does anyone know what it means? I did a grep -c and found that I've got 24 instances of spurious kernel interrupts in the file (Which was started in January), if that helps. IRQ7 isn't anything right now. Terri