The second major memory issue is that the Vcache doesn't allow for more than 512metgs of ram as a setting, and anything more causes Windows to reboot when the video card tries to initailize. The fix is a single line added to win.ini. And I must have a mutant strain of 98SE; since I did the vcache fix, it seems to address the full 1 gig of ram I currently have. It isn't the most reliable when something uses 700+megs, but for things like Poser, where you have non dynamic storage needs for textures, it seems to do okayfine. BTW Nontroppo; Another little techie toy you may want to consider getting is an IDE controller card. The best is made by Promise Technologies, slips into a PCI slot, and adds 4 EIDE channels to your system. My current main box has a Sony +/-DVDR/w-CDR/w writer and a no name DVD-CD reader on the motherboard IDE connectors (one for each, so that they are master of each, and suffer no slowdown or slow a faster device down). A Promise 133-TX2 controller, with 4 HDD's ranging in size from 30gig ot 100gig and a mixture of everything from an old PIO 4 mode drive to the current Ultra 133 speeds (Promise cards have independant channel timing, so you can put an old drive and a new drive on the same ribbon and the slower drive doesn't pull the newer one down. Each clocks at their best rate). The real benefit to this is that when you need more HDD, all you have to do is buy one and plug it in. My boot drive used to be an old WD Ultra 66 20 gig, and I went through three upgrades cycles without having to touch the OS. I just added new drives, moved some things, and kept right on plugging away.