> >>> 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"