Hi Michael,

It was about 2:30AM this morning when I gave up on it so my recollections are a bit blurry.

I have had some difficulty making resolution & colour depth "stick" under VirtualBox using the VirtualBox video driver. Others have had similar trouble it seems (not Aspire One specific). It tends to drop back to 4 bit & 640*480 on re-boot (sometimes other resolutions). However, I have found that using a Ctrl-G or Ctrl-F seems to force usage of the driver and restores the different display modes.

I am pretty certain XP was telling me it was runnung in 1024*600 & 32-bit when I tested DX & when I tried MoI. It should have been OK but reported the error.

Many thanks for your continued help Michael. I have sent an email and will try that diagnostic tool when you are able to send it :)