SMACK That's just ridiculous! First, that type of security protection is old, out-dated (isn't that a little retro 80ish style) and a little "big brother-ish" for me. If they expect their loyal customers to put up with that type of sh*t, they can think again. And that's a great way to go out of business... do something REALLY annoying to the legitimate customers because of illegitimate customers. So what happens is... the legit customers don't buy it... and the illegit customer hack it anyway... Second, it's lazy and poor programming on their end if their security silliness can't SHARE an interrrupt. HELLO?! Been available in most chipsets since early to mid 90s. The IRQ sharing is BUILT-IN to NT, 2000 and XP. Personally, I wish they would drop the security completely. Life is life. The people who will buy it, will. The people who won't... won't. They'll find a hacked copy somewhere and no matter how good your protection is... there is always a hacker who is better. So they end up wasting money, resources and time on "security" which takes the hackers all of about 24 hours to break anyway... when they could be spending that money, resources and time on IMRPOVING THE PRODUCT so that more people WANT to buy it. Sorry... rant mode off now.