Here we go! Dont know if anyone is having problems I found a tidbit of info that seems to have solved my problem entirely (sp?). I read the README (lol) for the nvidia driver from top to bottom (including all the stuff that 'didnt' apply to my hardware) and found a note about agp drive strength. Most nvidia hardware runs best somewhere inbetween 0xEA and 0xEE and it mentions never set it to 0xFF (or any F variant) because it'll cause instability. Its stopped my 'lockups' totally (least for the last day or two) but I still got an xserver crash with sig4 the other day. =/ But I'm happy and I hope this helps others too. -Matt P.S. Time to wipe the drive and install FC3