I'll let others work with you on the kernel version .... (which we'll assume is OK and a true CentOS install). I would put up a console on the local KVM port to capture the last set of messages before the system hangs -- which might help isolate the problem. >From what we've seen so far, it sounds like you might have a hardware problem. The things that I would check are: - power supply (aka losing voltage) - all the system fans (aka thermal shutdown) - memory (run memtest86+ overnight [or longer]) If not that (and still a hardware problem), it is a lot more subtle and will be "fun" to diagnose .... Hope this helps (a little) ... -rak- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080205/dfe0cafd/attachment-0005.html>