Two weeks ago I had a power outage when I wasn't home. When I returned I found that when the power came back my powered hub had started the mac and the date had set itself to 1904(as if I had pushed the reset button on the motherboard). So I reset date & time and everything seemed to be fine-until I tried to use my SAC controller. The sac now doesn't respond properly to fader positions and writes erratic data. Locates,transport and window controls all work fine. Radikal supplied me with a new controller-which exibits the same behavior. It also works fine on other systems. I tried everything I can think of-finally going as far as to reformat,repartition, re-install system and software- all to no avail. I tried removing PCI cards-3rd party inits etc. Pro-tools,Logic and DP seem to operate normally except when I try the RAD. A friend suggested that I try re-doing the firmware version 4.18 but when I try the Apple firmware upgrader it tells me version 4.18r2 is already installed. Is there a way to force the firmware to re-upgrade and/or can there be another possibility for a solution to this communication problem that I have not thought of or tried? Any thoughts or ideas would be greatly appreciated. Tom Swift Swift Kick Productions