If the floppy was bootable and your CMOS settings were set to boot from the floppy, then a boot failure has nothing to do with the OS installed on the hard drive. Make sure that the floppy is bootable and the computer is in fact trying to boot from it. If this is the case, then be sure to check all the settings in CMOS. Of course, you did not say if you can access the CMOS configuration or not. Can you do this? The answer would tell us if the problem is in the boot process or in the system at a lower level. Peter ----------------------- [log in to unmask] -----Original Message----- I hope someone can help or point me in the right direction. I have a Micron Millinium PC, 3 years old. XP Home, 512 MB, 2 60 gb hard drives. Yesterday, my curser repeatedly froze on the screen(the PC froze and had to be shut off manually andrebooted. Today, the problem got worse and I now have the blue screen of deathwhere the operating system will not vevn load. It was suggested that I try "http://www.memtest86.com" to see if it was a memory issue. I plugged in the floppy with the files, tried to boot and the same thing happened. Is this an OS failure for sure and what can I do to fix it. The company that sold me the PC did not send a OS recovery disk. Gary The NOSPIN Group Promotions is now offering our special coffee mugs and mouse pads with the PCBUILD logo... at a great price!!! http://freepctech.com/goodies/promotions.shtml