I now have and all-singing-all dancing new motherboard, with all mod cons and a CPU that monitors its own temperature. Of course, the software for doing this runs only under Windoze. Anyone know of a Linux prog that does the same ? TIA, Ron the Frog, on the slowly cooling banks of the Paraguay River. -- The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing -- Edmund Burke --- http://personales.conexion.com.py/~rolgiati ---