> Also it too is much slower than it was before. Something > else is wrong Been playing around with it again today. Still not found a cause that's obvious to me. The application which has slowed that has me puzzled is Real Producer. VirtualDub is fine I'm wondering if there's a 'ghost' of the missing IDE drive that failed. The MPU is trying to access it and some sort of "Not there" error process is slowing the whole lot down Hmmmmm....... I think it's time to strip the system down and re-build * * ********** Quality PIC programmers http://www.embedinc.com/products/index.htm --=20 http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .