It was a slow death. Sometimes it will gronk and grind and not read a disc and sometimes it will. I also attributed it to some configuration issue. When the Plextor runs through error blink codes, it spits out interrupts like crazy, causing havok throughout the system. Everything slows to crawl. The CPU time and resources are not affected, but everything is crawling along because the Plextor is running interrupts like crazy. But the problem comes and goes and wasn't duplicable. Right after the warranty ended, the Plextor refuses to do a darn thing. :-( I'm awaiting an RMA number.

Calvin