I had this exact problem once. I suspect your problem has to do with how your drives are jumpered. After going through a similar situation I contacted the motherboard manufacturer....... after a period of diagnostics tech support decided the controller was bad and authorized a return. When I hung up the phone I decided to try swapping out the CD ROM with one in another PC... only because it was the only thing I had not swapped out. It worked......but only because this particular CD ROM was jumpered as a slave and I had forgotten to change it to a master....... if I correctly jumpered it as a master 95 would not install. The solution was putting the CD on the secondary channel as a slave. After Win 95 successfully installed I was able to change it back as a master. I have no explantation as to why this occurred. Mark [log in to unmask] As a slave on the secondary channel everything worked fine but if >The problem (sorry it took so long to get here): Win95 will not >install completely. The CD-ROM comes off the sound card (Sound Blaster >Pro), so to make it all happen faster, I copied his Win95 folder to a >parallel port zip drive, then to E and installed from there. All went >fine until the point where Win95 "is starting for the first time". All >files have been copied from the installing process. The next step is >to "set up" (time, date, printer). When this reboot occurs, the Win95 >screen comes up (the artsy blue one) and the HD whirs away. Then a DOS >screen comes up with the message "Windows is configuring your setup. >This may take a few minutes (or some such)". Then, "Windows has >completed the setup configuration and is continuing to load" (Both >these messages are the standard after you've added new hardware or >made major changes to the registry - I'm just not remembering the >exact wording.). After about five seconds, the HD stops and the >everything dies. > >Will Stephenson >mailto:[log in to unmask]