Is there any know hardware problems that would cause XMMS (or any other music player) to lock the system up? I have: Soyo SY KT333 Dragon Ultra Platinum AMD XP 2000+ GeForce2 MX 400 On board CMI 8738 audio chip (being used) Haupauge TV Card 2 Realtek Network cards 1GB DDR Ram I seem to remember a previous Nvidia driver causing similar problems with this card. The latest and the shipped make no difference. I hope that has nothing to do with it. What I see happening is when XMMS is started up it plays fine for about 2 min and then the sound starts to degrade. After about 8 min of playing the sound just stops and the system locks with it. I can't telnet/ssh in, the system doesn't respond to the request. Keyboard won't do anything either. Hard reset is the only solution I seem to have, as well as not playing music. Jason Thomas