And a happy new millennium to you all Following a check of the following machines today we found no obvious problems:- Hitachi 747 Immulite 2000 Immulite Beckman Synchron CX5 The only problems were with some fairly ancient stand alone computers running Windows v 3.11 David Williams -- Dr D G Williams FRCPath Department of Biochemistry Sunderland Royal Hospital [log in to unmask] %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%