In a recent post, Paul Anderson wrote in with the following problem: "I'm building a new system and I'm having trouble with it. Every half-hour or so it will lock up and I will have to turn it off at the power switch in the back. Well if I go to turn it back on, it won't turn back on. I have to leave it off for about fifteen minutes and then it will turn on." I too, had similar problems with a machine I built a while back. Eventually, it wouldn't run at all. In my case, it turned out to be the way I'd mounted the motherboard. The motherboard was apparently unhappy that I used several metal stand-offs. When I remounted it using only 1 metal stand-off and the rest plastic, these symptoms went away, and the computer has run as sweetly as any factory-built system ever since. Go figure. Dan Daniel G. Bakker PCBUILD's List Owners: Bob Wright<[log in to unmask]> Drew Dunn<[log in to unmask]>