Ron,

I hate to see that someone else is having the same or similar problem but at least I know I'm not singularly crazy!

I'm seeing the same thing with my system. The only difference being that it's on the computer that I've been using without issue for the last year and a half. You can look at the thread I started "What have I done now".

I just posted two hex samples to try to see what's going on. You might want to go under my thread and post samples of working and non working hex files compiled from the same code for comparison. We might be able to figure out if it's a common root cause. And at least you have an old computer that is still able to create working hex files, if I understand you right.

Thanks,
Hylan