> > Halt command during the shutdown process causes > > "Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 0000872f" > Disable APM and this will go away. It's a "known bug" in > most of the kernels since I"ve been playing with Linux > (almost exactly one year now.) > Thanks John...... About the rest, well.... Sorry, Forget it. It would appear that the Taiwan memory shortage has blessed me with scores of defective 128 Meg SDRAM DIMM's. I discovered this after running DOC Memory, available free right now at http://www.simmtester.com Sorry for wasting anybody's time. Christopher Cox Cobox