Hi all
Some of you have helped out regarding my E: HD apparently being flaky.

At this point the E: drive is no longer suspect - read on...

The system, including the E: drive, performed flawlessly when running in Safe Mode. Many times and for longish times.

I had to move some HD cables (love those SATA connectors) in order to be ble to run Windows "Repair" (booted from CD), and while it ran to end I ended up with an unuseable system.

SO I ran a complete XP SP2 install, again from CD. Again it ran to end. After booting up I was able to run installs of certain MB things and the video adapter.
These were needed to enable the MBs network adapter and to set up my dual-screen video.

The result - I now have a system that simply freezes up at random but fairly quickly. It *may* be dependent on how many mouse-clicks I do. If I can get into Windows updtw with few mouse clicks it will run (check for updates) for a whie before freezing. If I click lots it frezes quickly on one of the clicks.

The freeze is a full blown freeze. No keystrokes, no mousing, etc works in any way.

I've run with the E: drive disconnected with no difference.

Any ideas????
cheers