mjn wrote: > I even logged in this morning prior to that boot time and the machine did > boot but there were no screen message to indicate that it was a propper > restart. My ssh connection just stopped responding...might this be a > hardware problem? I know that some BIOS let you set a time to power up the system. I'm not really sure what that would do if the system was already running. I assume it would do nothing but I've never played with any such thing so I can't say. You might see if the machines bios supports automatic power on/off. Charlie