I would try the noapic line suggested in an earlier post. Try taking out that second stick of ram as well. The board just may not be liking it or something as well. > First let me say sorry for posting a message without a > subject line in it. that can tell how frustrating it > is to me with this problem. > The hardware it is running on is a pc-chips mother > board with 512 ram and 1.8 intel cpu. maxtor 120g hd. > I have not had any troubles with this hardware, since > i have been running rh9 on it for sometime before i > upgraded to centos4. The change was i added a 512meg > memory chip and i just ran a memory tester on that > yesterday and no problems there. > It will run for some time then out of no where it will > stop responding and all i can do is a hard reboot. > > thanks > > > Steven > > > "On the side of the software box, in the 'System Requirements' section, it said 'Requires Windows or better'. So I installed Linux." > > > <snip> -- My "Foundation" verse: Isa 54:17 No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is of me, saith the LORD. -- carpe ductum -- "Grab the tape" CDTT (Certified Duct Tape Technician) Linux user #322099 Machines: 206822 256638 276825 http://counter.li.org/