I again started my Ti-500, to see if the same crash occurred. Which it did: Date/Time: 2003-01-27 16:54:51 +0100 OS Version: 10.2.3 (Build 6G30) Host: localhost Command: CheckPlugins PID: 242 Exception: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (0x0001) Codes: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE (0x0002) at 0x00000003 When I look at the Console Log, I see this: Mac OS X Version 10.2.3 (Build 6G30) Jan 27 17:54:13 localhost crashdump: Crash report written to: /Library/Logs/CrashReporter/CheckPlugins.crash.log 2003-01-27 17:54:23.282 SystemUIServer[433] MenuCracker (c)2002 <James_007_bond at mac.com> MenuCracker is now loaded. Ready to accept new menus. Ignore the failure message that follow. 2003-01-27 17:54:23.684 SystemUIServer[433] failed to load Menu Extra: NSBundle </Users/tjh/Library/PreferencePanes/ASM.prefPane/Contents/Resources/MenuCracker.menu> (loaded) 2003-01-27 17:54:23.685 SystemUIServer[433] Normally DeVercruesseASM would not have been loaded as a Menu Extra. 2003-01-27 17:54:23.757 SystemUIServer[433] Normally DeVercruesseASMSeparator would not have been loaded as a Menu Extra. Jan 27 17:54:25 localhost WindowServer[180]: CGXDisableUpdate: Updates disabled by connection 0x47f7 for over 1.000000 seconds 2003-01-27 17:55:28.871 pbs[408] CFLog (0): CFPropertyListCreateFromXMLData(): plist parse failed; the data is not proper UTF-8. The file name for this data could be: <plist resource in resource fork> of bundle: /Applications/Utilities/ATI Utilities/ATI Monitor The parser will retry as in 10.1, but the problem should be corrected in the plist. Jan 27 17:57:05 localhost WindowServer[180]: CGXDisableUpdate: Updates disabled by connection 0x490b for over 1.000000 seconds Does any of this mean anything to anyone ? Am I right in looking at the unsanity.com utilitiy (haxie) ASM as the source/cause of this? This has beeen installed since May 2002, so I do not know why today it is a problem.....! regards, Trevor