hi, I wasn't able to boot up any of the Fedora installs this time. I have to time the power button at the right moment, and for the right amount of time. You may check with all of my other postings - in which I have tried to get anyones attention. In previous posts, I have included more info - also an attempt to convey this on bugzilla. But I could need some help in how to report this. I had gone to bed, but wanted to add something: This happen in Microsoft Vista as well. Often if you write long in an editor, the machine freezes, and I haven't been able to do like in other Microsoft system: alt-control-delete, and you may kill the hanging application. In Vista I am have to force a power-down by holding the power off long enough to shut it down ( with the extra trouble of leaving the session in an abrupt way ) It's been a pain, an loss of much written work. ------------------------ Further more - it may upset something in Bios, and perhaps why Hewlet packard had trouble with some firmware in Vista. I have upgraded/Updated BIOS firmware once, because of some of this problems. I did receive a reply from NDIVIDA about, explained the trouble with Linux: Reply said: "Make sure your SATA controller in in ACHI mode from BIOS !" As the BIOS don't have any entry, BIOS is handled by Microsoft Vista. And at the moment I don't exactly know what the ACHI mode is all about ! Now I will have to get some sleep. Worked 24 hours, then 18, then 16, now - done more then 30 installs, a bunch of version of Fedora and SUSE. night, //ARNE <hr size=1>Boardwalk for $500? In 2007? Ha! <a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=48223/*http://get.games.yahoo.com/proddesc?gamekey=monopolyherenow">Play Monopoly Here and Now</a> (it's updated for today's economy) at Yahoo! Games.