>original post June,99 >Hello, I have recently put together a new system.>Consist of the following:>Abit 55T31 oem socket 7 mainboard (ebay special)>ATI xpert 98 8mg video card>64mb pc100 ram>WD 8.4gig ide drive>Intel 233mmx>Win 98>>My problem is that when the system begins to load windows, the >computer hangs, the drive light begins to flicker and the system>stops loading. I have checked for conflicts, ran>msconfig, loaded the system without config.sys & autoexec.bat,>removed video drivers but still have the same problem.>> This was my original problem I had posted last month, I thought the cpu or motherboard was the problem. I just figured I would share the solution with the list and perhaps save others who are new to building computers the troubles that I had. Turns out, the WDdrive I purchased, supports the new UDMA66mbps transfer rate, that I knew, however I was not aware that these newer drives come set at this rate from the factory. The board I am using only supports UDMA33mbps. Thats where my bottleneck came in. In order to disable this feature, I needed to download a utility off the WDig. web site that allows you to enable and disable the higher transfer rate. I'm sure this program is included in the retail version of the product, however I purchased the oem version which basically came with no documentation. I hope this info. will help someone in the future Thanks for all the help, Ken Cornell [log in to unmask] The PCBUILD web site always needs good submissions. If you would like to contribute to the website, send any hardware tech tips or hardware reviews to: [log in to unmask]