Dear Rudolf, dear Jean, dear Steven, (and all the others listening silently to my moaning :-) !!) thank you so much for your inputs. I will test the suggestions you made, mainly with regard to loading one driver only. I'll be back with some comments as soon as I get some details. As I readily mentioned, it may take some time as things are hard to predict. lm-sensors is a really nice tool, thanks for all your efforts, take care Dieter -- ----------------------------------------------------------- | \ /\_/\ | | ~x~ |/-----\ / \ /- \_/ ^^__ _ / _ ____ / <??__ \- \_/ | |/ | | || || _| _| _| _| if you really want to see the pictures above - use some font with constant spacing like courier! :-) -----------------------------------------------------------