I put back the old trsuty Cyrix 6x86 166+ in the machine and everything runs like a charm. Therefore I'm sure this is a MB-CPU problem and nothing to do with Debian. I should mention that with the MII 300 the machine would be quite cranky with an old RH 6.0 installation, and only boot WinNT with the internal CPU cache disabled. Ignasi. _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]