I had the same problem once. Had to send system in for motherboard replacement. (out of the box problem) System was a t21 Robert Hollis 630-573-7383 (T/L 677) e-mail - vdrlholl@us.ibm.com IBM 2707 Butterfield Rd. Oak Brook, IL. 60523 ----- The Linux ThinkPad mailing list ----- The linux-thinkpad mailing list home page is at: http://www.bm-soft.com/~bm/tp_mailing.html