jeffcompaq

Hello,
Thanks for the SP2 direct link.

To answer your question re: Bios

When you go to the 1st (and only for my machine) hard drive and click for details, the bios gives you :
- SMART SUPPORT
= NCQ supported
= Transfer mode UDMAS
= SATA mode SATA - II (3.06Gps)

If you then go on the Advance folder you get :
in SATA MODE
- RAID
- IDE
or - AHCI (never heard about this one !)

What I did for this Bios is to set it to "factory default" (which in fact set the HD to RAID mode.

I will have more time this WE (I hope) to finalise all this information kindly provided !
Cheers,
JEFF