never even thought of that, and well, it has worked so far! now for the final hurdle.

i removed ACPI from device manager > hardware > computer and changed it to Standard PC as i thought it might have been linked to my blue screen crashes. Win2KPro seems stable now i`ve disabled the AGPx4 in the Bios, but i want to re-enable ACPI, but can't seem to uninstall/remove "Standard PC" or update the driver to ACPI again.

any ideas Darren? and a million thanks for the previous tip.

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"you can tune a PC, but you can't tuna fish"