I have been buying hardware for the last 10 years, but I hve only seen RAM failures recently. During one failure, the server just locked up and upon reboot did not recognize one of the SDRAMs. In the other case, the RAM was flacky and my installation of Linux failed constantly. It was almost impossible to point to RAM, but when I removed that SDRAM, the installation went well and the machine is working. I would say, check the RAM for unexplainable behavior. Naren __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/