The ol' musical > chairs routine, except I have a seat for every player. Two down two to go. There must be something to reserving io addresses and such for modules that control many devices. There must be. A working solution is to use different chips. But is still irratates me that I haven't made two like chips work together. 2+2 is still four tho. -- Spencer Underground mailto:spencer at sihope.com deltree c:\windows /y whois microsoft.com