<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 TRANSITIONAL//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=UTF-8"> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="GtkHTML/3.0.9"> </HEAD> <BODY> <TT>Hi, I'm new here. I just installed Redhat Linux 9 on my workstation, with all the packages installed. The computer is running dual AMD MP 2800s, with 512 MB of RAM. I installed it fine, but when I started using it more, I noticed that the X server would freeze, and I wouldn't be able to move the mouse, or use the keyboard; I just had to shut off the power. I ran the update manager, and it installed the 2.4.30-9smp kernel, which helped at first, but still doesn't make much of a difference. Now it seems like every other time I boot up the comp freezes upon starting Mozilla, Ximian, or just playing some songs with XMMS. Is this just an issue with the X server version (4.3.0)? Sometimes just Mozilla crashes, and I can simply kill the process. But often I have to reboot. Thanks for any insight. Ben Hi Ben, I suspect that you will find you have a bad system board. I've seen this kind of problem before and that has always been what was causing the problem. I've built dual processor systems and run Red Hat on them before, although I haven't used AMD, and they ran well. One thing to watch, though, is that the kernel doesn't handle multiple SCSI adapters with hard drives well. If you have hard drives on more than one SCSI card, try removing the second adapter and see if the problem goes away.</TT> <TABLE CELLSPACING="0" CELLPADDING="0" WIDTH="100%"> <TR> <TD> Tom Thomas S. Fortner Burleson, Texas thomas.fortner@sbcglobal.net "but we preach Christ crucified..." 1 Corinthians 1:23 </TD> </TR> </TABLE> </BODY> </HTML>