soulhuntre, I'm running the newest linux kernel and can't force my machine to even lock up, never mind crash. using mandrake, which is bleeding edge software, the most unstable linux distro available. when I got free corel photo paint for linux it actually started / installed a stable version of wine windows emulator, so I can run wine and then run windows apps with it now. and, since the insmod boot errors seem to have locked out the printscreen function somehow, I can't get screenshot to show the KDE gui that comes with all linux distributions now, on top of gnome and around seven other guis. kde seems to use the resources the least, leaving more for the applications, so I actually removed all the other ui options. I do boot into command prompt, by choice, as there are times the console allows you to accomplish something that otherwise would require a full install to fix. win 95 and up starts removing that option for you. 2k and xp both do not have the option at all.