Entity Meirion Roscoe spoke thus: > We then had an unusually hot day for the UK > and that evening, the whole thing had slowed to a crawl, took a week to > boot up, and wouldn't run a single app worth talking about. Exactly! > Could it be that you're hard drive is on the way > out and become a bit temp twitchy. Not really, the slowness continues when booting from a CD. In any case, it does seem to be an overheating problem, I have been running a fan through it on hot days and it hasn't happened again. Thanks everyone for the input -- Gnarlie http://www.Gnarlodious.com/Entities/Computer/Cube/Cube.html