Mary Elise Zimlich wrote: > This was a good lesson for me- some things are just too > proprietary to be worked on by a new hobbyist such as myself. > Also older machines are rarely worth putting a lot of money into for upgrades. If you had an old CD drive (2X perhaps) that connected to a bundled sound card (instead of trying to hook into the motherboard) then it might work. But with such a small hard drive it would be hard to justify such an effort. Later, Russell Smith Region 14 ESC Abilene, Texas http://camalott.com/~rssmith mailto:[log in to unmask] PCBUILD maintains hundreds of useful files for download visit our download web page at: http://nospin.com/pc/files.html