On Friday 25 August 2006 11:25, Steven W. Orr wrote: > I hope that someone out there can help me. It seems to be a bad RAM module or slot, one of the original ones. I am now up and running on 2 GB of RAM. Comforting to know, and hopefully easily fixed. Thanks for all the help, and wish me luck. This machine cost a lump of money, and I would hate to, well, I don't need to say anymore. Peter -- Dr. Peter D. Roopnarine, Assoc. Curator Department of Invertebrate Zoology & Geology California Academy of Sciences 875 Howard St. San Francisco CA 94103 Phone: (415) 321-8271 FAX: (415) 321-8615 WWW: http://www.calacademy.org/research/izg/roopnarine/peter.htm "there's a mansion on the hill"