I recently replaced my mb and hard drive and took the opportunity to upgrade to Win98. I have noticed that the boot process seems to be slower. For about 90 seconds, nothing happens on the screen, but I can see the access light on my CDRW flicker on and off. It is running off a FirePort 40 SCSI card. Win98 recognized my SCSI card directly so I did not have to install from the Diamond CD as I did on my Win95 machine. I am wondering if the Win98 SCSI driver for my card is different and may have introduced something to the boot sequence to cause this delay. Before I installed the SCSI card, I noticed that Win98 seemed to load much faster than Win95 (but I was not done with the installation of software, fonts, etc.). Any ideas, hints or suggestions> TIA Jim Jim Maki [log in to unmask] PCBUILD's List Owner's: Bob Wright<[log in to unmask]> Drew Dunn<[log in to unmask]>