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In the continuing saga of the "minor but irritating" Thinkpad problems, may I present my mwave annoyance. At least, I think it's mwave. Relatively frequently (about once or twice a week) the computer crashes in the following manner. I can be working away (on Excel, Word, WebEdit or Photoshop usually - I don't think the application matters), sometimes reading what I've just written (i.e. no keyboard or mouse activity), other times actively typing, and the speakers suddenly start to emit a long, sustained note. It's always the same frequency. As soon as this happens, samples are no longer played. In fact, when the computer attempts to play a sample it pauses for about 30 seconds. So, I try and close a program, and everything locks up for a while as it attempts to play the "close program" wave. Usually, I can close one program and any others running then lock up. Hitting CTRL+ALT+DEL brings up the task manager window (eventually) which tells me most things are [not responding]. Sometimes the task manager shows me that "mmwave", "rnaapp", "mwsw95" or "POp95" are not responding - or at least present when they are normally absent. Is one of these the culprit? I can never close down Win95 normally from this state, eventually being told that the whole system has stopped responding. A soft reset is required (sometimes a hard one). When Win95 reloads, it starts to play the monotonous note again, but this disappears shortly before it plays the "Start Win95" sample. I hope I've decribed the problem reasonably well. Does anyone have any idea what's going on? Adam Britton