Well, I cleaned out some dust (wasn't very much) and put the case back on today -- rebooted, and now it's even worse than it was. Now it can only take 5-6 minutes, which isn't always even enough for system boot (which is SLOW, as RAID reconstruction and ReiserFS journal replay goes on at the same time and obviously makes the disk seek back and forth ALL the time -- this is nothing new, though)... So, I've turned it off, and will try to get a replacement motherboard/CPU for testing. Hopefully teachers etc. will understand my situation =). /* Steinar */ _________________________________________________________________________ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers