Hi, A friend came over with an HP Pavillion- 333 celeron w/ 64 megs and a 4 gig hd, running windows 98se. It was working fine, she shut it down, started up the next day and got a blinking cursor. I tried to run the recovery disk but got nowhere. I threw in a new 40 gig harddrive and was able to load the the whole thing on the hd, but when I started up I got an error message "Invalid VxD dynamic link call to device number 3, service B. Your windows configuration is invalid. Run Windows setup program again to correct this problem." I tried to get into the bios, using del on startup, but I was unsuccessful. Is this normal with HP? I tried loading XP pro, but after loading it in, I got an error number 4 message. Any ideas? Mark Hayden The NOSPIN Group is now offering Free PC Tech support at our newest website: http://freepctech.com