Some good descriptions of PCI steering are at: Description of PCI Bus IRQ Steering -- Q182604 http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q182/6/04.ASP How to Disable PCI Bus IRQ Steering in Windows -- Q182628 http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q182/6/28.ASP Error Message: Error Writing to Drive C: -- Q189000 http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q189/0/00.ASP Rick Glazier > So why the "IRQ Holders for PCI"s, me no know. Strange isn't this? :-) Visit our website regularly for FAQs, articles, how-to's, tech tips and much more http://nospin.com - http://nospin.org