Earthdog - thank you! That is exactly what I have decided to do. Yes I am running Windoze 98 and as soon as I get my hands on XP I can install my lovely new 80Gb HDD which is sitting beside my desk, and adding more RAM (so I can swap the sticks to check whether the old one is fried).
Hunter of Jahanna - Great idea! We don't celebrate the 4th July here in England, I can't think why not [img]graemlins/biglaugh.gif[/img] , but I can save that idea for 5th Nov, when we celebrate the attempt by Guy Fawkes to blow up Parliament. Now that gives me a secondary idea

- ah no, better not.
Deathkiller -

I dunno, people these days

I am quite capable of fixing it mesself dearie, seems the modern answer to everything is to get someone else to do it. Manufacturer? Built it mesself, and it had been working fine until very recently. Thanks for the thought though.