Hi Guys......

I have been heavily using this computer for 2 days looking up hotels in
England (a lot of graphics).....so after the coincidental crash with
Heirloom's attachment, did a Safe Mode scandisk and defrag......it did take
quite a while.....90 minutes at least.

Rebooted and decided to plug in my new card reader for the digital
camera......got a few missing file or dll errors. I didn't write them down,
but they were USB ones....like the fellow had when trying to load the
software for his Pentax. So I clicked on Skip It.....got a couple more and
cancelled it.

I took the card reader out of the USB port.....and wham, the whole damn
thing went dead on me!! Ron said the screen just went black.....no
warning...nothing. Monitor and speaker lights were still on. Checked
everything and could not get the CPU to come on. Finally it did after maybe
10 or 15 minutes.

Seems to be working OK now. Icons were splattered all over the screen just
like when I came out of Safe Mode....and Scandisk ran. Perhaps I tried
putting the new card reader on too soon after the defrag? Has to be
something to do with that.

Only other thing I have put on in the past few days is the IconCache.
Screen was freezing on me last night and had to reboot a couple of times. I
put IconCache on because the icons were slow to 'fill in'.

I never could write a short post.....sorry about that. But want to make
sure this 'baby' is not having major problems. I probably need new video
drivers......and I am about ready to upgrade to XP!!! Scared the hell out
of me, it did.

As usual.....I get the weird problems. Not about to try the card reader
until tomorrow......and I did keep your post Mike about those USB files
being in BASE2.Cab Files and the website to download the ones you
need.....quote.....

Alternatively you could visit
http://www.usb-drivers.com/drivers/63/63237.htm
and download usb-WinMe.exe which contains WinMe's usb related files.
Extract the files you want and put them in windows\system32\drivers.

It was asking that they be put in that System 32 folder. And for the WinME
CD which I don't have.

Sob......Figgs