Hello all, The question I am about to ask may seem pretty elementary to some of you but I cannot sem to find an answer from any other resource. When mounting a motherboard, as you know there are several holes for placing the mounting screws. Around each hole is a solder coating. When should the little red plastic washers be used and when not. Does the procedure differ from AT to ATX? I have an ATX Gigabyte GA5AX512 Mobo which I have mounted using the red plastic washers on all screws with no problems. Some info on this would be helpful. The manual says nothing about it. I have also searched "Upgrading and Repairing PC's" and "Tom's Hardware Guide" Web site with no luck. Thanks. Paul Sprague ___________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866] ----- PCBUILD mailing list - http://nospin.com Bob Wright:[log in to unmask] - Drew Dunn:[log in to unmask]