m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: >>>> Also, what would have caused this all of the sudden? This box has been >>>> running fine for months. >>> Well, do you think that computer hardware lives forever? >>> >> They don't? /me stares at 486dx with a working floppy drive and working >> floppies from the eighties and early nineties. > > And I deal with hardware with drives, and memory, and the occasional m/b > failing at less than five years old. Depends on the manufacturer, the q/c > they had at the time it was manufactured, and the day of the week, as the > old line from car buyers goes. > > mark "make mine on a Wed, please" Haha. This is getting OT but stuff today (for the past decade) do tend to die around the end of warranty if not earlier. No greedy^Wsane company makes anything that lasts anymore.