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>>>Thanks, Steve. I'm really getting a bit edgy about the box. One of the reasons that I didn't finish up yesterday is that it kept wanting to come up in Safe Mode. I'm concerned that there may be problems beyond the modem/sound card.
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>>Can you say fdisk? :)
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>I don't think it's the drive (fortunately). Just after the strike, when I tried to boot, I got a message about NVRAM (meaning, I think non-volatile RAM). The next day it booted up without problems. Last night, after numerous re-boots, suddenly it started to hang in the boot process. At best, I think it may be a little heat sensitive. I'll find out to-night.

Ahhh, so you think it is a hardware problem. By fdisk, I was suggesting you may need a clean windows install.