I have been having problems with my machine. I will be using it and the screen will go blue and say that i should shut off my Bios Caching or Shadowing. How do i do this? Should i do this? Also, i was able to play video games no problem on the machine but lately the video on it becomes choppy and the blue screen appears then too, im guessing the problems are linked. Any help?

"Dumbing Down" Your BIOS Some BIOS settings, especially Caching and Shadowing, can cause problems. Reboot the system, go into BIOS setup, and look for a "safe defaults" setting. If any kind of "safe defaults" setting is available, choose it. After doing that, re-detect all your drives. Shut off ALL caching and shadowing, including: Disable Internal (L1) cache Disable External (L2) cache Disable Caching of system BIOS Set Caching and shadowing of the video ROM to disabled. Disable all caching and shadowing of memory locations C000-FFFF Don't worry about performance -- later you can turn most of the caching and shadowing on, 1 by 1, to gain back most of your performance while keeping any offending settings disabled. Got this off this webpage. http://www.troubleshooters.com/tfresh95/index.htm I hope that this works. Jim R

The only problem is that i went into the BIO but the only setting is that it says:"load safe defaults" So i don't think that i will have a choice to pick to disable certain things. Is this the right thing to click on?

There should be at least a dozen menu choices on the main BIOS screen & each one of those will have plenty more. Disabling L1 & L2 will slow your system down to a crawl. I just posted some info in the CPU forum about an AXP-M I was testing...with L1 & L2 disabled, it took about 20 min for Windows to fully load. Loading Safe Defaults is basically for troubleshooting purposes...you're really not supposed to run with those settings (though many people do). There is no "one-click" solution. For best performance, every BIOS should be tweaked...the settings will vary depending on the hardware you have. How about listing your complete specs & giving us a little more detail about what's going on?