On Mon, 14 Apr 2003, Tom Diehl wrote: > Just for giggles you might want to run memtest86 on the machine for a few hours. > I have not had any stability problems on 9. nor i. just today, i was, all at the same time on my laptop, downloading one ISO image at 350K/sec, burning a second, and "unzip"ping a third ISO image (don't ask why it was zipped in the first place -- it just was). i had some pretty serious throughput happening, both on the hard drive and the CD burner. not a problem. (and, of course, i was browsing and reading my mail at the same time.) if you're having that kind of grief, i'd do as mr. diehl suggests. i think you have some non-shrike related HW problems. rday