>>> If all I wanted was an mp3 box, I'd forget the 1.2 gig tbird and run the 486 that's been gathering dust
Incidentally... have you ever TRIED to play a MP3 on a 486? Sorry but I started on a 486 with Mp3s and I had to encode at 56kbs to get any sort of decent sound out. 128kbs (normal) didn't work at all.
Though it was funny that I was running it for weeks without realising that the CPU fan had broken off taking the heatsink with it... still worked and chugged along like a king, shame you can't do without a fan now... that would solve your problems with noise.
