I've just installed Windows ME on a new system and whenever the system reboots after installing my ati radeon drivers I get an error message "Windows encounterd an error accessing the registry. Windows will now repair the registry for you and restart the computer." It does and when it restarts my ati display drivers are gone. I had the same error message before and when it restarted my cdrom drives disapeared from my system. I had to wipe the drive and start over. now the drives are staying anyway. Any ideas? This is about my sixth attempt at getting this sytem up. Jeff Do you want to signoff PCBUILD or just change to Digest mode - visit our web site: http://freepctech.com/pcbuild.shtml