Its a laptop and I doubt its a heat problem, but I will look at that possability when I open the body to see if I can access and replace the memmory, should that be the problem. :eek: I thought that the memmory was the problem at the beginning too, but I hoped (and still hope) that it might be some other problem like a 2.6.10 or lsm error that crashes my kernel without writing info to logs. poop. :P So is this memcheck86 in the boot.iso or diskboot.img that I can find here? I dont have a floppy drive, so can I use a CD? Perhaps the install CD has memcheck86? http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/3/x86_64/os/images/ Thanks for all the help! -thewade