Originally posted by kbrown Thanks guys. I gotta think of this a bit more carefully. Right now I'm dealing with instability issues with the machine The computer just freezes randomly and I don't have the slightes clue why. God I hate dealing with this crap... Such a waste of time... 99% of the time random crashes are down to faulty memory. A dodgy sector can allow the machine to run for hours without a problem, then just die when the memory sector is accesed. The next reboot could have the memory being accesed straight away causing it to crash at a completly different time. Try moving the stick/sticks around, or only using one stick (if you normaly have 2 or more). There are also a few memory testing software that can diagnose the issue. Good luck