I have also heard that this can be caused by overheating. It is my experience that a computer uses a lot more power and its internal temperature rises while compiling a kernel. Your fan may not be powerful enough to compensate for this problem. If this is the case, new ram won't help. You may simply need to replace the fan. Lorenzo "Linux was made by foreign terrorists to take money from true US companies like Microsoft." - Some AOL'er. "To this end we dedicate ourselves..." -Don -- From the sig of "Don", don at cs.byu.edu Johan Bergstr?m staggered into view and mumbled: > That usually implys hardware problems. Probably some bad memory bits. > > > jack mendez <wiler1 at earthlink.net> writes: