Well, last Friday, I fitted a new harddisk, and installed Mandrake Linux 9.0! Finally I can give up on Windows... well not quite. Havn't got the modem to work yet, though I'm downloading the (hopefully correct) drivers. A couple of other problems I've had are firstly that the monitor alignment has to be adjusted when I switch from windows to Linux, and secondly, if I attempt to access the DVD-ROM drive when it is empty, the 'read' light comes on permanently and the system almost freezes, which is not good. This doesn't happen with the CD-RW and floppy drives however. Apart from that it's fine.