Sounds like you are getting noise on your Parallel printer port. Try disabling the printer port in CMOS and see if error persists. Good Luck, Jeff McCright -----Original Message----- From: roden [mailto:roden@dbasetek.com] Sent: Friday, August 10, 2001 5:04 PM To: kclug@kclug.org Subject: spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ 7 I am getting this line in my dmesg file and from time to time at the login prompt. Could someone shed some light on this. Thanks Doug