> Looking at the BIOS(couldn't see a make, but it's number is A02)
That's the latest BIOS revision for your machine, see:

http://support.euro.dell.com/uk/en/home.asp?sid=DIM_PNT_P4_4300

> Trouble is the only other choice is S1, which is even worse.
> It seems that S1 and S3 are the ACPI Suspend Modes, but how can I turn
> these off? Or use them properly?

We've got a Dell Precision Workstation that wouldn't boot Linux - I got
a Kernel Panic, something about a bug in apic.c.  The first solution was
to disable APIC in the system BIOS but then the machine wouldn't boot
Win2K (dual boot).  So I added [append = "disableapic"] to the
lilo.conf, ran lilo, re-enabled APIC in the BIOS and now both Win2K and
Linux (SuSE 7.2 / Kernel 2.4.4) are happy.

Perhaps you could try one of these?

--
  Simon Oliver



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