Hi al... I'm back!! I've been off-line for the past 48 hours (more or less) rebuilding my system. I'm now running an old PI 233 that I had in the attic. Anyway my hard disk was fine, it was the MoBo that went bad! I moved the hd to this old system and it now works fine, but slow. So, now I'm in the market for an "new" used mobo. I'll start a new thread about that. Thanks to all for the help! JIM -- Jim Hatridge Linux User #88484 ------------------------------------------------------ WartHog Bulletin Info about new German Stamps http://www.fuzzybunnymilitia.org/~hatridge/bulletin/index.php Viel Feind -- Viel Ehr' Anti-US Propaganda stamp collection http://www.fuzzybunnymilitia.org/~hatridge/collection/index.php