Well, the last mail seemed to go through, lets try another I am using The Gimp to edit some images, they are tiff files and about 50 Meg, I can work on them for about 3 minutes untill the machine locks up, only a reboot will fix it. Why is this ? Kind regards Kevin -- ______ (_____ \ _____) ) ____ ____ ____ ____ | ____/ / _ ) / _ | / ___) / _ ) | | ( (/ / ( ( | |( (___ ( (/ / |_| \____) \_||_| \____) \____) Kevin Waterson Port Macquarie, Australia