Hi All, Thanks to Matt's suggestion earlier today I have managed to fix the RPM database problem relating to my earlier post. I went ahead and installed all the packages I had stored in my yum cache. One of the packages I installed was a newer (I am unsure at the present time if it's the latest and greatest version) of cpuspeed. The exact version is: 1.2.1-1.46.fc6 On logging into Gnome is says my current processor does not support scaling and that my current configuration is wrong. This seems rather odd when CPU scaling worked perfectly fine and well with the previous version (the exact version number escapes me at the moment). Was wondering if someone might be able to shine some light onto this for me. Thanks for your assistance. Cheers, Tony Crouch