On Wed, 5 Dec 2001, Nate Carlson wrote: > The next day, she said that the P2-333 locked up, and she went to reboot > it. When she rebooted it, it just started beeping (it's the POST beep.. > didn't write down the sequence of beeps yet.). She called me, and I told > her something probably went bad. Funny thing is, two days later, the P75 > started developing problems with it's printer, and then all of the sudden, > it locked up, when she tried to reboot it, it did the exact same thing as > the P2-333. There is a virus out there (so many viruses, too many names, sorry I don't remember which one) that flashes your BIOS when certain conditions are met. Definitely a possibility in this case. Browse around on SARC and you can probably find the gory details. -Brian