First thing you need to do is log the boot through the crash of PHP, it sounds like something is getting hung in the processes and crapping out. Personally, I run Apache on windows and Linux machines. It has less tendency to die and gives a great log of when something happens. First step is getting that PHP error/system log. Wolf -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php