Hi K, Sorry to see you're still having this problem. 1. Are you still hearing that "ding-ing" noise? Is it comming through the speakers or from the HD? If it's from the HD, back up anything that is precious on that thing and contact Dell support. You can also test your hardware using a burning test software like Sandra. You can download that from Cnet or from: www.3bsoftware.com/sandra Warning this is a stress test. Use it wisely. 2. If I understand correctly, you have used Mimic before without this problem. Mimic is not a new install? 3. Something may have affected your video drivers. Rendering in Poser is through software, AVI's use the vid card drivers. You might want to try and re-install the video drivers. But that would not account for the drive space warnings when writing Tiffs. So it's unlikely. Good luck, Q

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