What are the exact errors he gets. Could be many things but would be much 
narrower with specifics.

Make sure his Hardware isn't bad. I had that problem with the Computer 
Re-booting out of X, I found that I had a bad stack of memory chips causing 
the Re-boot.





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On Saturday, April 17, 1999 9:54 AM, Martin Barnard [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
wrote:
> Hi,
>  I was wondering if you could help my friend, he has installed Mandrake 
on his
> system and for some reason it keeps crashing (SIGHUP 11) when he does 
things
> in X (the whole thing rebooting).
> His system is:
> Pentium 166MMX
> Diamond Stealth 3D2000 (2MB) Video card
> 32 MB RAM
> Generic 32x CDRom
> 6 GIG Quantum HD
> Any suggestions / help would be appreciated as he is getting very fed up 
with
> the whole deal (he has tried 4 different Linux flavours) and has tried
> reinstalling numerous times.

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