Hello! Val Henson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Sounds hardware related. Try removing cards or switching motherboards. As I already mentioned, the problem persits over all of the described hardware changes (that's what I meant to say with the "upgraded" and "installed later" in the hardware descriptions). Even in face of the obvious similarities mine and my friends' machine do not have anything "significant" in common; meaning that the PCB revisions/manufacturers of all otherwise identical components differ in every case (Motherboard, RAM, Power Supply, Plextor CD-ROM) as they were bought at least 6 months apart. The described problem is the *only* instability we experience, besides during X startup the machines run rock-solid as long as they're turned on under Linux and more stable than can usually be expected under Windows 98 and Windows 2000. If it should really be hardware then I think it is a quirk that only gets tickled in the situation described (meaning it would be a bug present in all configurations similar enough) and should be avoidable. So long, Joe -- "I use emacs, which might be thought of as a thermonuclear word processor." -- Neal Stephenson, "In the beginning... was the command line" - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/