I noticed a couple of messages booting the new 3.2.2 kernel: (I) watchdog: --------------------- [287247.568009] NMI watchdog enabled, takes one hw-pmu counter. [287248.814530] watchdog: INTCAMT: cannot register miscdev on minor=130 (err=-16). [287248.814536] watchdog: error registering /dev/watchdog (err=-16). [287248.814540] mei: unable to register watchdog device. (I) acpi: --------------------- [ 4749.406097] thinkpad_acpi: unknown possible thermal alarm or keyboard event received [ 4749.406108] thinkpad_acpi: unhandled HKEY event 0x6040 [ 4749.406114] thinkpad_acpi: please report the conditions when this event happened to ibm-acpi-devel@lists.sourceforge.net [ 4749.406834] thinkpad_acpi: EC reports that Thermal Table has changed suggestions on what I can do to track these down anymore ... or if it could be hard/firm ware issue on this lenovo W520 laptop. thanks. g