Yeah that was half the problem. Thanks for your help On 9/10/05 6:13 PM, "Sam Drinkard" <sam at wa4phy.net> wrote: > I encountered much the same problem, and come to find out, it was the > ATI X600 graphics card in the system. I installed a Mach 64 card and > disabled the 600 till all was installed. Grabbed the proprietary driver > from ATI, installed, and nary a problem since on boot. Even tho the > X600 card is listed in the hardware, apparently it is not one of the > cards in the list of cards supported from the install CD. If you have > another video card, (pci) maybe swap it out and see if that might help.