K well it's 1 30 and i have an early lab tomorrow morning. so ill be really brief. you guys know my cube it's the one with the dam monitors button going off spontaneously, and with usb sound problems, and with fw disk problems... just now one of my fw ports is completely dead. it's really annoying. because i have an ipod and a external fw drive and want to buy a burner... do you think it could be a logic board failure? or even a system controller chip (does this g4 have one?) (oh by the way by usb sound problem i mean that when my speakers cut out the headphone jack still works odd eh? ( i thought earlier that it could be that lil` amplifier but i think it's usb because it has a resetting sound like static or just plugging in a electric gutiar to an amp. its extremely annoying, (because i am a hardcore audiophile) anyway ill post back hopefully tomorrow. thanks guys. (and girls) Francois