gramie_dee's puter seems to be hurtling towards the edge of a cliff, one foot on a banana peel and the other on a patch of ice. It keeps going into scandisk and booting up very very slowly. I have visions of an old computer of mine that did something similar when it's hard drive crashed but he's waiting to see what happens in case it's just bad memory. On the plus side, he's been over taxed at work (payroll, not work effort!) and got a rebate this pay! At least he'll have a bit of cash to buy a new hard drive and new memory if need be. I guess that means he'll be offline for a bit. I hope the computer can be coaxed but i think it's very very ill indeed.