Just a passing thought Dave, but have you thought of checking that the cmos battery is ok? On Wednesday 08 Jun 2005 8:22 pm, Dave Phillips wrote: > Greetings: > > While waiting for another box I decided to pull the RAM and test each > stick (256 MB each). The problem occurred with either stick. I'm able to > log in, work for a few minutes, then the box just freezes. I can hear > the disk drive make a little activity noise first, then everything's > just gone. Btw, it'll die in X or at the console, it's not an X problem > (I think). And since the problem occurs whether I'm on /dev/hda or > /dev/hdb I doubt if both disk drives are bad. > > Anyway, Ivy's bringing over the other machine in another day or so, > I'll switch drives into that machine and see what happens next. > > Best, > > dp