[99silverado]

Update.

After weeks of reading, tring everything found on here, upgrading memory, formatting a new hard drive....twice. I called Avid yesterday and spoke to a tech who sent me a new download of protools 8.0.4. Install was fast and easy. Did the 8.0.5 update, 11r firmware I had update previously. Still need to do a few tweaks(optimizations), But like to say Protools is now up and running better for me then ever! This new laptop rocks. I still need to setup my external FW400 Drive.

Thanks for everyone's help. Cheers

One question i have not found. Does Protools 8.0.5 support External 3.0 USB drives?