Well, I'm in Florida until Thursday visiting my kids who are here for a year or two and then they're going back to Peru. Well, I did a hard reboot on my machine (ubuntu derivative) and now when I turn it on it doesn't say it is panicing but the cap lock light is blinking like a panic occured and nothing else. in other words nothing comes up on the screen, nothing beeps, there is nothing except the blinking cap lock light. I'm thinking I'm going to need to restore it when I get back to AZ but figured I should ask you-all before in case you have any ideas. This is upsetting.... I always turn it off this way and have never had this happen before in..... gosh.... since '98, '99. Since before Red Hat became Fedora. My first install fest was the one at Glendale Community College. When was that? :-)~MIKE~(-: