> Absolutely. I have acpi=off as well - it was totally unstable before > that; it was one of the first things I changed. I would disable acpi in > the bios but I need it for windows to run... and I only need windows for > sibelius. But now that I know you can run score in dosemu, it might be > time to bite the bullet - btw did anyone who got it to work try > printing a Score score from dosemu? All you need for Windows to boot w/o ACPI is the "other" kernel. It's not too hard to change over (you just add some flags to your boot.ini file - and if you're paranoid, you can just make another entry for it so you have one for ACPI and one without ACPI). As always, the M$ KnowledgeChase is your pal: <http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q237/5/56.ASP> =MB= -- A focus on Quality.