> ... usually. > Don't get me wrong. I'm not saying that bugs in software can really be > blamed on flaky hardware (the hardware standards are a lot more strict), > just that software doesn't always behave as expected, even when > everything appears to be ok. ok ok - but then again it wasn't a software problem was it (hey, we can blame THEM (s)) btw I have had something similar (even worse) with a Pentium 100 - whose CPU fan didn't always work - if that happend after a couple of hours the computer became unstable and behave strangly. this behaviour disapeared after changing the fan Arnon