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Hello Jeff and/or Craig (I assume you communicate with each other) – As for what brand of computer I have: the system name is "DC 486WB Writeback-Cache" using an Intel 486 33 MHz CPU. The DC486WB uses an OPTI chipset and a high-speed SRAM supplementary external cache. I vaguely understand what Caches and Shadow RAM are, and can only tell you what I see in my manual. The other question you had was about my disc drive: it runs with an IDE controller; it is a 120 MB Conner. While we're on the subject of the cache (mine is 64K), you may want to know what the relevant boot-up parameters are set for: External and Internal Cache memory are enabled, Video ROM Shadow (C000 and C800, both 16K) aer enabled. Adapter ROM Shadow, in 16K segments from C000 thru EC00, are disabled, System ROM Shadow F000, 64K is Enabled. Wait States for Read and Write memory and Cache Read and Write are set to 0. Video BIOS Area is set to Non-cacheable. Manifest System parameters: Processor: i486 Video Adapter: VGA BIOS: AMI BIOS Date: 06/06/91 Coprocessor: 80387 Keyboard: Enhanced Parallel Port: 1 Serial Port: 3 TOTAL AVAILABLE Conv. Memory 640K 562K Expanded Memory 0K 0K Extended Memory 7168K 7168K Video Memory A000-AFFF Graphics B800-BFFF Text Video ROM C000-C7FF Other memory reported: 0000-003F 1K Interrupt area 0040-004F 0.3K BIOS Data area 0050-006F 0.5K System Data 0070-0EA2 56K DOS 0EA3-137E 19K Program area 137F-9fff 562K [Available] B000-B7FF 32K Unused C800-EFFF 160K Unused F000-FFFF 64K System ROM I can't make real sense of this information in relation to the memory protection faults I'm getting, so it's hard to tell if I'm giving you the information you might need. BUT I'm willing to dig in to get it so if you can think of other things please say so. Thanks for your help. June