I turned off SSH. I still have the random Shutdown problem. Sometimes randomly, but always when accessing a vfat. Often when the screensaver moves to a lower power setting, (suspend, standby.... somethimg like that). The USB works properly in Win98. So I'm leaning away form hardware, but not completely discounting it.

Is there a way I can replace the uhci.c file for possible corruption? (how do I know if it is compiled or module?)

Could this be related to my problems with accessing and mounting DVDs, CDs, CDRWs?

The system occasionally hangs on boot at one of two places. Detecting PCMCIA (how do i debug to tell why?)
or
Loading Hotplug (how do i debug to tell why?)
(Not predictable.)

Ok, if I boot, Damn Small Linux 2.2, Win98SE, Knoppix 3.8, Syste Rescue CD (linux distro) or anything other than the Slack installed on the hard drive, the laptop boots and funtions normally. But when I boot slackware 10.2 off the hard drive, within 1 second to 5 - 10 minutes, it WILL crash. The power light will stay green, but all the drives, and displaly will blank out. (yes it is plugged in/full chagred.)

This is frustrating as all heck. There sems to be no rhyme or reason to it.