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Unfortunately, Packard Bells were still sold in France and sometimes exported to other countries as late as 2002. I worked on one with Windows 2000 on it and it was a P.O.S. another had Windows Me as standard and no support for other OS'es because of the insistence to still use proprietary parts. Both clients were pissed because the machines got hosed (drive failures, power supply failures, a chip on a motherboard went, etc.) while under warranty and it was almost impossible to get P.B. on the phone (let alone in English), to RMA the systems back to France or Mexico for repairs (plus shipping costs via customer). They went out and bought H.P. computers for 1/4 the price and about the same equipment in them. Neither of them have failed yet. It seems P.B.'s had semi-decent hardware in them the older you get. They closer to now, the shittier the equipment and more chances you just gave them $2,000.00 US for nothing. -John Boffemmyer IV PS: P.B. graphics adapters are far from obscure. They used quite common Trident, S3 and Cirrus Logic graphics adapters, often built into the motherboards. Reference drivers from various sources (including S3, Trident, Cirrus Logic) worked every time (for most of the Windblows OS'es - newer versions of 2k, XP, etc, often already had driver support for them). The newer P.B.'s that I last saw used el cheapo no-name brand nVidia TNT2 vanta's and m64's. Those have reference drivers right on the nVidia web site for just about all the Winblows OS'es and even Linux. At 09:26 PM 9/28/2005, you wrote: -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.11.8/113 - Release Date: 9/27/2005