Yep .. twas a memory issue .. I had added 2 more 8 meg simms tro give me 32 megs. I took them out and works fine now. Thanks a million. Declan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stephane Dudzinski" <stephane at antefacto.com> Subject: RE: [ILUG] Kernel Panic > Definitly a memory issue, google groups is full of that kind of error. >