Hi Andy,

>
> I'll turn it off and it will crash tonight, so I can then try again :)
>
> Andy

Have you shut down the windoze box with the serial connection still plugged 
in? I had this problem before and it was the pc firing rubbish up the serial 
lead which was crashing the Qube....

Regards,
Pete.

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