David, One thing i recomend to people with these types of problems is to clean the registry.If your not familiar with edditing the registry I suggest you download an application called Microsoft Regclean. You can find it here:http://www.zdnet.com/downloads/stories/info/0,,23283,.html What your having a problem with appears to be the ASPI layer, You may try simply reinstalling the ASPI layer or "force" the aspi layer.This sometimes involves reinstalling the OS then installing the ASPI layer, Ahead Software offers the ASPI files on thier website. Hope this helps, Robert W. Smith [log in to unmask] _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Do you want to signoff PCBUILD or just change to Digest mode - visit our web site: http://freepctech.com/pcbuild.shtml