What a nice topic to get the system more or less back up for... Seeing the predictions of a particularly gorgeous fall display this year in the Smokey Mountains, and immediately start planning altitude sensitive trips and assigning flash chips for each level. (As a BTW, if you are getting a new mobo for your system, =never= believe them when they claim to support all current processors of your favorite flavor. They lied, and it's bloody difficult to flash your BIOS when the only flash program they offer works only under Windows...which can't be loaded due to thermal shutdown because the chip is misidentified.....grrrr!_) Oh well, at least I can start reinstalling all that software again.... :