When I go to start a Compaq computer and get a beep..... pause.... beep beep What's it telling me? The floppy is connected, I tried different DIMMs It has a SCSI drive, I assume as the "C" drive, but whether I use it to try to start it or disconnect it and use either one of the onboard IDE sockets, I get the same beep. At least that's the way it was with the IDE drive, I think maybe with the SCSI drive it did nothing. AND I've never got anything on the monitor, and yes, it's plugged in :-), that "plugged in" part was a joke. cu, Don Bieber, The-Picture-Man PS Red meat is not bad for you. Fuzzy green meat is bad for you. ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/web/.