>Please, close this ticket. Probably the board was damaged as it finally gave >up. OK, done. I've also added a comment. I suspect that continuous byte read was not working on your adapter/monitor combination, while regular byte read was. Usually, EEPROMs support continuous read mode (aka auto-increment), maybe yours wasn't. I don't remember hearing of similar cases though, and we cannot verify my theory anymore. Thanks for taking the time to report to us after all this time, that's very nice from your :) Jean Delvare