Thanks for all the replies. I can appreciate the possibility of the hdd going bad, but it has been operating flawlessly before and after trying to use the sdram, but that doesn't exclude the possibility. Tried the old mem and both the .30 and .33 kernels this morning with absolutely no problems.
I don't find any specific settings for the sdram in the system bios and what there is of a handbook for this generic motherboard (430vx)isn't much. The #1 suspect, I think, is an incompatibility with the m-board and, #2 would be a bad chip. I'll try a different type of sdram or use it in a win95 box. What's a few extra crashes, I don't use it very often, anyway. thanks, -- tony mollica [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]