Hi Could someone please explain what this message means and why it might appear intermediately? NVRAM update failed This is occurring at start up on post on a pcchips M810LMR Mobo sometimes the update is ok other times it fails It then goes onto auto detect all hdd and cd roms and then intermediately either freezes or goes onto boot successfully, regardless of the success or failure of the NVRAM update. System is a 800 AMD 512 Meg ram ATI Radeon VE 32 meg 1x quantum Fireball 40gigs master on pri ide 1x 52xcd rom slave on pri ide 1x Philips PCRW1208 12x8x32 cd re-writer master on sec ide Memorex MAX1240 DVD drive slave on sec ide ps/2 keyboard USB wireless mouse.... Same problem arises even with a normal ps/2 mouse installed :-( USB Jopystick External serial Modem Running Win xp Thanks for any help offered. Ray Pamment Crawley in the UK Do you want to signoff PCBUILD or just change to Digest mode - visit our web site: http://freepctech.com/pcbuild.shtml