Hi, all -- I was working on my e-machines celeron tower when things suddenly got veeerrrrry slooowwwww... I had mouse trails (briefly) but no keyboard response, and then finally nothing. I did the five-second power key hold and rebooted ... and it came up "40 40 40 40" all down the screen. I left it off for an hour or two (though it always runs and never has a problem) with no change. I pulled a hard drive and tried again and got "01 01 01" instead. I started thinking about RAM... Since then, I have successfully booted from a Linspire CD (Knoppix on this machine is apparently unhappy; I'll figure that out later), run fsck on the slices and seen them happy, and even booted from my backup partition on the second drive. Whew; some things are OK. Now to get this sent and unhook and see if I can boot from my primary after all. But what does "40 40 40" mean, and what caused this? TIA & HANW :-D -- David T-G davidtg@justpickone.org http://justpickone.org/davidtg/ Shpx gur Pbzzhavpngvbaf Qrprapl Npg!