it was the ram.

Its a rock solid beast now!

the only thing that annoys me slightly is the data transfers top out at 120kb/s

witch is still not bad i guess … for a half duplex 10bt NIC… but this card is a 10/100

pretty sure its linked at 100. maybe nubus is acting slow? who knows…

copied 600 megs over to the hd 5 times over (from the apple scsi cd-rom) -no lock up's