Hello all- I did fix the non-waking up linux box with suggestions for you all - setup in Bios was wrong for video shutdown. New problem: Mandrake 5.3, KDE 1.1, desktop themes <for a newbie that's a bad combination- hahaha!!) I downloaded a few themes and a theme installer off the kde.themes.org website (I've looked there for help and came up dry on this issue). I installed 2-3 themes just getting familiar with how the software works and on the third theme, KDE restarted, I logged in and within 3 seconds it restarts again - repeatedly. This is the file I found in my home directory called X-Session Error Log or something to that effect - it was at work & I didn't get the exact name before I came home. <BEGIN ERROR LOG> --KBackground::KBackground KScreenSaver::KScreenSaver KFonts::KFonts KGeneral::KGeneral _OS_LINUX_ inserted keys read settings got key dict KKeyChooser::readGlobalKeys() Make key chooser standard Change: Replace Change: Next Change: Copy Change: Undo Change: Close Change: Prior Change: Open Change: Find Change: Insert Change: End Change: Print Change: New Change: Quit Change: Save Change: Home Change: Paste Change: Cut Change: Help read scheme done KKeyConfig destructor inserted keys read settings got key dict KKeyChooser::readGlobalKeys() Make key chooser standard Change: Replace Change: Next Change: Copy Change: Undo Change: Close Change: Prior Change: Open Change: Find Change: Insert Change: End Change: Print Change: New Change: Quit Change: Save Change: Home Change: Paste Change: Cut Change: Help read scheme done KKeyConfig destructor stretchPixmap 6x6 to 192x6 stretchPixmap 6x6 to 192x6 stretchPixmap 6x6 to 6x192 stretchPixmap 6x6 to 6x192 add top window add top window Could not read '/tmp/kfm-cache-500/index.txt' kaudioserver: disconnectChild() with pid 766 Return = 0 kaudioserver: Exiting on myExit(2). Starting audio server with talk id 6. kaudioserver: Catching fatal X IO Error. Cleaning up. kpanel: waiting for windowmanager KDELnkMimeType::runAsApplication starts runCmd(/home/PenguinCBR/tik/tik.tcl) KDELnkMimeType::runAsApplication starts runCmd(kfmclient folder file:/home/PenguinCBR) <END ERROR LOG> My guess is that this constant rebooting of KDE has something to do with the last few lines? I don't know what file these commands were issued from. What file do I need to edit to remedy this problem? Thanks for any assistance with this... *********************************** Carla Boltin-Romere [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://rainbowfamily.net ICQ Nites: 9778410 ICQ Days: 3748636 AIM ID: PenguinCBR ***********************************