I have had to have a new mother board fitted to this computer because of a prob with the video card seemingly burning out and also doing damage to the old mother board well since fitting the new board I have been using on board sound and also on board video now the prob is the speech keeps stopping it is not at a particular time it can happen when using windows messenger or when reading email not so much then or sometimes when alt tabbing around the programmes on the computer I have 1024 of ram so that should not be a problem running windows X P also office X P windows messenger for xp and outlook for my email and jaws 4.51 I do not know if it is a prob with jaws or the fact that I am not using a sound card and or a video card I did have a sound card on the old mother board it was a sound blaster live card but it was having probs of its own so had It taken out have allow wave files aloud in jaws any help at all would be appreciated The speech stops for about between fifteen and thirty seconds not much more than that and then restarts For email use hugh.megarry@xxxxxxxxxxxx For M S N use hughmegarry@xxxxxxxxxxx For Skype use hugh.megarry All the best for now Email hugh.megarry@xxxxxxxxxxxx --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.711 / Virus Database: 467 - Release Date: 25/06/2004 ** Going on holiday and want to halt messages? Send a message to:- ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** and in the Subject line type ** vacation ## d ** where ## is the number of days followed by d for days. ** For other things like digest mode, send a message, to ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq