On Tuesday 15 October 2002 12:27 pm, you wrote: > Note that you mentioned Windows 98 does not have problems.  This kind > of puts a kink in the "heat theory", but I know that my problems rarely > occurred in Windows 98, were somewhat more frequent in Linux, and > almost constant in Windows 2000. I beleive Windows and Linux treat hardware differently - Windows being more forgiving since it often doesn't access the hardware directly. So, one OS may work when the other crashes due to hardware. Dennis Kibbe