GRRR! This stupid thing is bound & determined to make a liar out of me. Not 20 minutes after I made the previous post I had another crash. I was trying to get the SP2 download from WU, and the browser (IE) crashed to desktop. I moused over the area on my taskbar where firefox should have been & the box displayed "Empty". Then my desktop crashed...meaning all icons disappeared and the taskbar with it. On trying to reboot, no primary master was detected and if stopped at "Disc boot failure" again. After 3 attempts with no detection, out of frustration, I <smashed>, no, rapped the power supply with a screwdriver handle and lo & behold it booted on the next attempt. Coincidence? After seeing this, I've hooked a digital multimeter to a power tap in the box & I'm seeing anywhere from 11.68v on boot to 11.86v at idle. Is this within parameters or low?
I'd better post this before I crash again.


