I posted a message about a strange problem with my win2k machine, since nobody replied, here I have some new ideal and some update. I have a new hardware upgrade, changed my old video card to a Geforce2 MX 32M card. First, about the game SoF, I just found out that I have everything the game should like but doesn't - win2k, nvidia card and SB live. All the issues that Activision is still looking for an answer, I have them all. Second, about those Event Viewer errors, I still can't get rid of them, but they don't seem to have any impact to my system. I did more "homework" on those error messages, I come out a new "guess", if anyone has similar experience, or any explaination/solution, please let me know. Here is what I think the problems might be: I remember that when I was working on a big tower machine with A7V and SCSI RAID card & win2k, there was a disk controller error reported by Event Viewer I couldn't get rid of too, after some time, the error dispeared itself, I was told by tech support of our A7V supplier, that the error might be onboard ATA100 controller, when it's not in use, the ATA100 BIOS is not loaded, but there is no way to disable it, so Disk controller error may related to that. So my Event Viewer may reported the same thing. Does anyone else think this is possible? Jun Qian The NOSPIN Group Promotions is now offering Mandrake Linux or Red Hat Linux CD sets along with our NOSPIN Power Linux CD... at a great price!!! http://freepctech.com/goodies/promotions.shtml