Please ignore, I finally got my other post through.

Thanks Rusty, Maybe the post will move down as others. My real concern was getting back to a post I "Thought I Spotted" related to a wrist pin ruining a cyl. It's Time to Move On! This Nice North, TX Weather is allowing me to get back to some relevant projects and cleaning out non relevant projects. "Time Waits For No One". Enough Said! Loger

Well, many know that spreading gypsum around willy-nilly is a waste of money, petz (cheap has nothing to do with anything when spending money you don't need to spend [wasteful]), and Linda merely wrote up what many know. Sorry you didn't catch that. And sorry you didn't mention that Ca is abundant in the PedOCal region )the Ca in PedOCal) and gypsum isn't needed to release Ca, esp as the OP mentioned 'caliche'. And surely you know, having a horticultural education, that qualifying statements for such an article are the norm, else you'd spend a lot of time writing letters to authors of articles you read. As I said, reread your soil text. The one you saved from your uni education for future use. And it is likely your ag econ text says the same thing: never spend money on a treatment that is not needed. This is not to say that a soil analysis will not find that gypsum is needed. This is to say that automagically stating that one should spread gypsum is not needed. HTH. Dan

The Shift key + F8 worked, and so now I need to get a new flash drive so that I will have a recovery option. I have a blank 4 gig flash drive, but I normally keep that in the blu-ray player, as it needs the memory, and that is the perfect size for it. Not sure what size I need for a recovery drive. I could possibly also make a blu-ray disc - would that have enough storage for a recovery disc? I really appreciate your help, as your tip worked perfectly, and I would not have thought of it on my own. The recovery option in my computer for the recovery drive would take the computer back to Win 7, which would probably be okay, if necessary. I'm just hoping that this problem does not continue. The problem started this time when I tried to turn on the computer while the monitor was unplugged (this happened accidentally without my noticing it), and plugging it back in did not solve the problem on its own.