This is a phoenix bios and my laptop always runs hot and very poor battery life. Is there anyway around this or am I stuck with it? I guess, do you know? Anyway, here is the data. todd ACPI: EC: Look up EC in DSDT ACPI: BIOS _OSI(Linux) query ignored ACPI: DMI System Vendor: Gateway ACPI: DMI Product Name: T-1628 ACPI: DMI Product Version: 90.03 ACPI: DMI Board Name: ACPI: DMI BIOS Vendor: Gateway ACPI: DMI BIOS Date: 09/27/2007 ACPI: Please send DMI info above to linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org ACPI: If "acpi_osi=Linux" works better, please notify linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org ACPI: Interpreter enabled ACPI: (supports S0 S3 S4 S5) ACPI: Using IOAPIC for interrupt routing