These problems look like bad RAM. If you bought it used, maybe someone got bad RAM and sold it out of frustration. Check out http://www.macattorney.com/tutorial.html William L Carr On Tuesday, March 4, 2003, at 11:49 AM, Fran wrote: > I recently subscribed to this list after being on several of the other > LEM lists because I went out and got myself an iBook 600MHz/20/128/CD > I've had this for about 3 weeks and have already had to reinstall OS > 10.2.4 three times and used the restore software to reinstall OS > 9.2.2. This machine seems to like to freeze up alot. I once thought about starting a club to discuss the philosophy of Fatalism. But then I realized that even if anyone came, they'd only come to steal the folding chairs.