Hi, my laptop is having intermitent hardware failure. When I used windows, I thought it could be a bad driver. Now that I have Linux installed, I know for sure it is hardware. Specifically, my hard drive. My question is: since I always hear the drive power up, is it more likely to be the controler, or could it just be the hard drive. When it happened this morning, I didn't have a DOS floppy with ASAP to varify what message it displayed. I've got one now for the next time it happens. One other thing, after trying to boot 4 or 5 times, it came up with no problem. This behavior is consistant any time it happens. Kenny