Hi! Michael Wright wrote: > what as happened my laptop went dead on forgot to to the main power > back to it and when i went to load it up the X server would not load Just to get it right: You've got a Laptop with FC4 installed on it? When you worked with it you had no power cable, so the batterie went low? After restarting the system (now with power) the system boots, but it can't start the X-server? And now you want to solve this problem by reinstalling FC4? Bjoern