Hi- I know this "clicks and pops" thing has been done to death on this list and I'm kicking myself now for not having paid attention to that discussion, but here's my problem: I just installed a new 30 GB ATA 100 Western Digital IDE hard drive on my Dell Optiplex Windows 98, PII 400, 192 megs of RAM, running LAS with a Lexicon core 2 system. When I finally got the machine to boot up with the new hard drive, discovered all kinds of loud popping and clicking in Logic and absolutely bullocksed sound in Windows Media The hard drive came with "Data Lifeguard" which I installed and then uninstalled hoping that was the offending party, but alas, Logic still consistently clicked and popped. The only other thing that may be new is "EZ-bios" which I'm not sure can be gotten rid of. Keep in mind that I'm not even using the new HD yet, but just the fact of having it on the IDE seems to be screwing everything up. Does anyone have any experience with this sort of thing? Even if someone could point me to the archives so I could fish through all the clicking and popping drama, that would be a big help. A friend said he had a similar problem with Windows and the only way he was able to fix it was to overhaul his whole system. That seems a little rash to me given the circumstances, but I may end up doing just that if can't fix the problem. Thanks Scott Hampton ************************************************************ drum 'n bass, trumpetronics, mental guitardation: www.mp3.com/velvetino _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp