Thank you for your reply. I think the rebooting issues was caused by Windows or a BIOS problem. I've had the system for over a month, it has been running 24x7 serving bit torrents, constantly (while loop) doing dd of each mount point to /dev/null all while coping files from my media server to a local hard drive. The system never missed a beat .... that said I still don't know how to install Linux from scratch w/o getting the failed to set xfer message. FYI: All Linux distro's (Fedora, Ubunto, Knoppix, ...) I've tried have the same issue. Thanks, Jamie On 8/20/07, Tim <ignored_mailbox@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, 2007-08-19 at 19:54 -0600, Jamie Bohr wrote: > > she was having problems with the systems just rebooting while it was > > being used > > Spontaneous reboots can be due to poor power supplies, and overheating > components, to name just a couple of common causes. > > I received a rather nice graphics card, gratis, for that reason. The > fan had seized, the owner felt the cost of properly replacing the fan > wasn't worth it. So he bought a new card, and gave me the old one. I > just removed the old fan, aimed an ordinary fan at the card's heatsink, > and it works nicely. Now, the whole card is cool. Before, just the > graphics processor was cooled (and not much), the RAM, and other things, > would roast. > > -- > [tim@bigblack ~]$ uname -ipr > 2.6.22.1-41.fc7 i686 i386 > > Using FC 4, 5, 6 & 7, plus CentOS 5. Today, it's FC7. > > Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. > I read messages from the public lists. > > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > -- Jamie Bohr -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list