Andrew, So far these freezes seem to occur after the machine has been sitting overnight (shorter terms of inactivity at the keyboard don't do it). Oddly it seems that the freezes occur in a delayed manner. That is when I come in the next morning I can initially use the keyboard but after awhile the keyboard stops responding. I never seem any particular error in the system logs. Also the mouse always works so I can move windows and logout of the current X session. The fact that logging out (with the resulting restart of the X server) doesn't solve it leads me to believe the problem is at the kernel level. Jack