One more report - if everybody isn't totally bored with my hardware problems. :-) The machine was up for exactly 99 hours and then it locked up hard. I've experienced this 3-4 times before. It's always been when I've been using the CD player, usually when changing CD's. It hadn't happened since I upgraded to a later version of the earlier, buggy version of the CD player that came with Ubuntu. Oddly enough, the machine wouldn't boot after this, would turn on but nothing would happen. I had to actually switch the supply off and then on, and then it worked. So there was some bad hardware condition that was being preserved with the machine in its powered-off-but-network-card-is-powered-on state. Weird! Just out of curiousity, has anyone else experience this problem? I'm using an Abit motherboard. The problem must be related to the on-board sound chips because it's occurred with both CD drives - one which is IDE, the other SCSI. Vaughn --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss