yup said semiconductors were bad, they were talking about it in relation to desktops though, and didnt make mention of if it only affected desktop drives or if it also affected laptop drives. I wondered as well if this has anything to do with the drive problems people seem to be having with their fujitsus. I have 2 30 gig fujitsus in my riocar and have had many occurences of "no hard disk found" . Maybe it has something to do with it.