So, I RTFM and solved the problem. I don't know as much as I thought I did. Thanks for the replies. Peter Shkabara wrote: >I assume that the BIOS recognizes and displays your hard drive as the boot >device. So let's consider the XP options. > >Just to do some diagnostics, install a new copy of XP on the drive. Instead >of replacing the existing installation, use a different name for the windows >directory - use WINXP for example. Then see if it will boot properly or not. >I know that this is time consuming, but sometimes it is worthwhile to learn >what it is that is causing the problem. I just went through a new >installation myself to fix the ills of my current install. Of course things >did not go as expected! I do have a stable system now after doing the >install twice. > > > Do you want to signoff PCBUILD or just change to Digest mode - visit our web site: http://freepctech.com/pcbuild.shtml