Hi Dave, I'm glad you're back up and running! Somehow your DirectX installation got hosed during that crash. It's a good thing I have that crash dump mechanism to help track down the cause of a crash, otherwise I probably wouldn't have guessed that was the problem.

> I'm downloading the direct X driver and installing right now. The crash I experienced
> was the type with a black screen and no mouse or keyboard response. I had to power
> down. So I can imagine it would damage files.

A severe full system crash like that is usually only possible if a driver is doing something bad.

If it seems to happen again or you have any system instability, you should probably update the video driver. If you do get to that point let me know and I can assist you with finding a good version.

But if you don't have any further problems you can just use what you currently have.

- Michael