As a followup, I have gotten word from the repair shop at which I dropped my computer off this morning: It appears that my hard drive was sick. When he disconnected my 2nd hard drive, the system ran perfectly; with the hard drive connected it would not even read [much less burn] CDs. My best/only guess is that as part of the flaking out the previous week of my PSU it somehow fried the electronics for the HD and I guess the HD was screwing up the IDE bus or some such. [the drive this was scavenged from an *ancient* IBM Aptiva I had many many moons ago].
Not one of my first-choice guesses as to what the problem was going to be [although I admit that I did suspect it was hardware and my system checked out OK with the MS Memory test running for 8 hrs]. /Bernie\ -- Bernie Cosell Fantasy Farm Fibers mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Pearisburg, VA --> Too many people, too few sheep <-- -- ---------------------------------------- To Change your email Address for this list, send the following message: CHANGE WIN-HOME your_old_address your_new_address to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Note carefully that both old and new addresses are required.
