No, you were one of many with bad caps on boards. There was a whole story about how it happened. An engineer or engineers from the plant that made components - ie capacitors - left and "stole" the formula for the product. Turns out they stole a faulty formula and manufactured bad parts. They unknowingly sold a lot of these for quite a while - lots of them went to Abit it would seem - before finding out about the issue. It's kept "Homie" in business for a while now: http://home.att.net/~garyheadlee/index.html I haven't used Gary - nor do I know him - but I've cooresponded with him about the issue a couple of times. -- John LeMay KC2KTH Senior Enterprise Consultant NJMC | http://www.njmc.com | Phone 732-557-4848 Specializing in Microsoft and Unix based solutions