<div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 30, 2007 12:29 PM, Beartooth Sciurivore <<a href="mailto:beartooth@swva.net">beartooth@swva.net</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div class="Ih2E3d">On Sun, 30 Dec 2007 10:03:49 -0700, Karl Larsen wrote: > My Fedora 7 and 8 are working fine. Typically I bring up my Firefox web > browser and try to read what is on the Google page. It is from a > newspaper and it has a lot of advertising and pop-ups. While all this is > coming up, sometimes it keys a sudden loss of the screen due to a full > screen cross-hatch, and neither keyboard or Mouse work. The only thing > to do is turn off power to the computer. </div></blockquote></div>You could also be having an overheating problem. You might check to make sure your fans (case, chip, power supply) are working correctly and the intakes are not full of lint. Dick S. -- Dick Seabrook ~ Anne Arundel Community College <a href="http://enterprise.aacc.edu/~rhs">http://enterprise.aacc.edu/~rhs</a> ~ Speed the Net!