Quite a few UP x86-64 laptops print APIC error 40's repeatedly when they run an SMP kernel (And Fedora doesn't ship a UP x86-64 kernel any more). We can suppress this as there's not really anything we can do about them. --- linux-2.6.14/arch/x86_64/kernel/apic.c~ 2005-12-07 15:17:33.000000000 -0500 +++ linux-2.6.14/arch/x86_64/kernel/apic.c 2005-12-07 15:18:16.000000000 -0500 @@ -1032,7 +1032,8 @@ asmlinkage void smp_error_interrupt(void 6: Received illegal vector 7: Illegal register address */ - printk (KERN_DEBUG "APIC error on CPU%d: %02x(%02x)\n", + if (num_online_cpus() > 1) + printk (KERN_DEBUG "APIC error on CPU%d: %02x(%02x)\n", smp_processor_id(), v , v1); irq_exit(); }