Subj : Me ? To : Jean Parrot From : Jeff Guerdat Date : Mon Oct 10 2005 10:18 am On 10-09-05, JEAN PARROT said to JEFF GUERDAT: JG> I think it's toast. Stop beating yer head against a brick wall. ;) JP>When you say this, Jeff, you mean the MoBo ? Probably - might just be the connector. Take your copious free time (us old, retired farts gotta stick together) and open up the computer. Check to see how the drive seats, look for bent pins, etc. Beats watching the rain fall... JP>I have saved the two URLs that you gave me and will go have a JP>look. What is the main theme on them ? They relate to disabling the Fast Shutdown capability of 98 and 98SE. You'd use msconfig.exe to do this. Not sure it would show up in ME but I think there was a registry entry to check in one of them. ___ *Durango b211 * DurangoMail for Windows NT/9x --- Maximus/2 3.01 * Origin: COMM Port OS/2 juge.com 204.89.247.1 (281) 980-9671 (1:106/2000) .