T Thanks for that, Module worked a treat. Excuse my ignorance, but what do you mean by permanent SLIC? As in 1 that will remain following bios upgrades with no need to re-mod the BIOS? If so would be very interested to know how that works, however at this stage I dont plan on updating the bios for this laptop that often - if ever again. I will however be attempting a MOD on a different ASUS desktop motherboard to go with my i7 chip in the next few weeks - so if I dont manage it myself, I will be back again then. Cheers D