Thanks Ray, that's as I thought, I'll search for a new MB, maybe go for the upgrade and get a 1.7GHz.

Regards
Ian

Hello Again, My X31 has finally gone down the tube. It was running perfectly fine and would even soft reboot no problem but I mistakenly closed the lid and it wouldn't resume. Once that happened it was all over and nothing could bring it back. I removed all the removables including memory, cards, ba...

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