News, tho. I did the low level format and verify, and reinstalled SuSE 7.0. Since then it's been doing some very weird stuff, but only off and on. For example, I'm getting httpd-conf errors at boot up, but not at every boot up. The warn file reports problems with PHP (3). So no surprise there. But, on some boot ups, when I go to log in, it rejects my log-in. What I mean is, I don't see the next line, "password:". As soon as I type in something and hit enter, I get "login incorrect". And sometimes that's followed by a "respawning too fast" message.

And although the segmentation faults aren't as numerous as they were after the first install, they're still appearing from time-toi-time.

Hardware errors, no doubt about it. The software couldn't possibly be that buggy. It could be your SCSI cabling (this is sensitive to bad connections, or bad cable connectors), or your RAM, or your motherboad, or ... (endless possibilities). Main thing: stop looking for software trouble. Volker PS: please limit your lines to 72 characters.