Hello Ted,

 TM> Well, I know for sure that you're much into both programming AND 4Dos.

     Not much but a little. Last few months and especially the last 8 days
     I have been learning how good W95 is at finding ANYthing wrong with
     the system it's attempting to run on.
     It's really quite good at _noticing_ hardware problems.
     DOS could care less ;-)
     ("Care less" is an expression that always seemed backwords to me.)

     If W9x's messages pointed to a conclusion to the problems...

     What is needed is a really good plugin for W9x to help find hardware
     problems, not a device manager that says "this device is working
     properly".    At the moment I'm winning. (system is stable)

     Anyway,...

Most kind regards and appropriate seasonal greetings (whatever they may be),
     Barry