I must be out to lunch ... as I am having serious install problems on one particular set of hardware. I am beginning to think the hardware is jinxed for some reason. Configuration: Iwill dual processor board (Xeon) [DP533 board, Intel 7505 chipset] RAM: 2 GB (2 sets of 2 different brand 512 MB sticks) 2 IDE drives (80 GB IDE0 and 120 GB IDE1) CD Burner Plenty of cooling fans, etc. No SCSI hardware, etc. NVidia AGP card (128 MB) I have tried installing the following Linux Oses with little success RH9 - crashes during the start of the install process RH8 - will install, but when updating with apt-get ... gnome starts to crash. Suse9 - crashed during install Fedora Core 3 - crashes when starting to install software (formats drives, etc. fine; have done md5sum check on iso files) (crashes on different files; says issue is media, lack of space, or hardware related problem) (set bios safe default values) Has anyone ever had such difficulties in getting a system to install? I REALLY need this system to get up and running. Some suggestions on possible trouble shooting tips, or ways to get past these crashes would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance. Randy