Gosh, I'd tell you to throw it down the drain. And save the proc and mem.

I had such horrible problems trying to get my sister's PIII 600 working with ME (as installed)I could curse myself for trying. Even with 98SE, all it is is a glorified word-processor for all the crashes and weird hangs.

I count it up to Sony trying to recoup their loss in the consumer market.

Nothing I know of has fixed them. I now believe they were flawed to begin with. Geesh, you had an earlier model?!?! My sympathies.

A fan of Sony, I hope they have fixed it. I'll never know. I buy OTHER. It was a lesson too expensive to repeat.