I am using an HP Pavilion 9870 with 384mb memory, 140gb hd, Nec dvd +-RW drive, and ATI All in wonder Radeon TV Tuner video card. I am working on recording to hard drive from old vhs tapes I created myself to later transfer to DVD . I am using ATI's included software. Everything worked fine for months. Suddenly my computer started rebooting whenever I used any of the TV functions. The error analysis from MS said it was a bad device driver. Since it happened when using the TV functions I downloaded and installed the latest drivers and software from ATI. Now, the computer no longer spontaneously reboots but every time I try to transfer a tape, the recording aborts after various periods of time, reporting that the video source is protected and cannot be copied. These are my own tapes and I certainly did not copy protect them. ATI suggested reducing the quality of the recording. I have taken it down as low as possible and the problem continues. ATI also suggested it is a memory problem but if I record direct from the cable tv signal, all goes well. I have tried shutting down all the TSR's and still cannot record from tape without the protection abort. Anyway, why would one source require more memory than the other? Do any of you have any suggestions before I spend money on more memory? The NOSPIN Group provides a monthly newsletter with great tips, information and ideas: NOSPIN-L, The NOSPIN Magazine Visit our web site to signup: http://freepctech.com