Guess I'll try Kerry's suggestion tomorrow and see what happens.

Is there some way tomorrow evening I can get back in touch with one of you to help me do the CMOS thing and reset the BIOS....I've NEVER done that but am a willing learner.....as long as I have a someone like you guys around I won't have any worries doing it. I know about the CMOS battery...and the jumper....it'sjust that I've never done that before.

Bob, I don't recall making any changes in my BIOS when I was getting this newbuild up and running.....but what do I know? I wouldn't know what to set....but I did take a picture of each BIOS window and saved it.....just in case. That might help.

Hope to see you guys tomorrow evening.....I have 3 grandkids playing baseball and soccer tomorrow.....and they may spend the night (look out!!!).

I may have to wait until Sunday evening....how can I get in touch with you Kerry56 and/or Bob on Sunday evening......or can I?

P.S. I turned the computer off again and left it off about 2 minutes but nothing changed except as I said, now it's showing both internal SATA HDD's...one as Master and one as Slave.....doesn't show any errors....but it's still froze up. Those keys aren't working yet either.

Just a thought, could I have shorted the two USB connector as I was attempting to plug in my mp3 player.....if so, could that have cause this problem?

And, how about the fact that my new (installed software and did a backup of my documents today for the first time).....and it was set to do another backup at 10 PM tonight.....maybe that new external Maxtor caused the problem....such a conicidence it seems......that's way it makes me wonder, did I have the problem right at 10 PM and sometime didn't like that happening????