Quote Originally Posted by UnderScore
... slowly dying motherboards...
I think something related to motherboards. In fact I've replaced one of those celeron at work with a pentium III 667mhz cpu on the same motherboard and have the same crash issues, while at home I play daily knoppix 3.8.2 on a pentiumIII650 without problems. 'slowly dying' maybe isn't so correct taking care that 3.4 doesn't crash and these mothersb. aren't so old, rather a sort of "bad motherboard architecture" (?).