Folks...I want to thank all of you for so much help. I have all of the tools that I need now, however I haven't gotten to the project. I'll start tonight.. and if successful, I'll let all of you know. I am planning to RUN memtest86 just to "make sure" that the memory is OK...I already made a boot CD. I'm going to install the INTEL drivers first....see if they are OK.... I'm going to run 915resolution to at least get my BIOS readings so that I can match a mode with something that I'll write into the xorg config file...I KNOW that I'll find a good combination...I just haven't fount it yet... but with all of the information that I have now, I can't see it NOT working. Anyway, thanks, everyone... Bob Boehm -- Chicago Transit Authority Rider's Rule #36: Never ever ask the tough looking gentleman wearing El Rukn headgear where he got his "pyramid powered pizza warmer". -- Chicago Reader 3/27/81