I can't take the machine back because I built it.  I did double check the 
power supply with AMD and made sure I got what they recommeded.  I also 
bought the motherboard to go with the AMD Duron chip.  (all information 
came from the AMD web site).  I then double checked that information with 
the recommnedation from FIC the maker of the mother board.  I have two hard 
drives on the same IDE channel, one as master and one as slave, with the 
cdrom and zip drive on the second channel with cdrom as master and zip as 
slave.  I download files to the zip disk and then install from 
there.  Maybe that's the problem.  I did have a friend of mine who builds 
machines for a living check out my setup and he didn't find a problem.
      I am beginning to think that my Western Digital HD is the real 
culprit.  I installed a new drive at the same time as changing the 
motherboard and cpu, (added more ram, used existing video board and 
existing modem).  Someone had mentioned that western digital sometimes has 
a problem with linux.  Going to have to check my email for that.
   Thanks for the advice.  I think I'll have my friend double check 
it.  (he's not familiar with linux, just winblows).   Thanks again.  I'll 
let you know what I find out.
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