So I broke down and bought a new vaio on Friday and have been playing all weekend. Everything was working just fine, I had the 802.11b working in windows and was setting it up in linux. Since I had to build a new kernel anyhow I decided to download the latest (2.4.9). The build went fine and after the reboot I got some huge error "FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF00000000" something like that. So I thought oops I should've saved a lilo option for my old kernel. No big deal, I thought this would give me the perfect opportunity to try my new bootable slack 8.0 cd I just burned. Plug it in and reboot to a screen full of garbage -- as far as I can tell it never gets past the bios. So I try a reboot holding f2, same result. Any ideas? I've tried booting to a boot disk also with no luck. I hope I didn't just fry my new toy. Sure seems like a bios problem to me -- is there anyway that 2.4.9 did this? I was having sooo much fun [:-(] marc