Alexander, FYI I think I can safely say that the problem w/with the ide bus in that motherboard or at least in that motherboard. right now I am installing into the 2nd disk using dma. I was never able to get that far until I turned dma off. So all things considered, I believe that swapping out the motherboard solved this problem. thx for your help! John Rose -- The only thing Micro$oft has done for society is make people believe that computers are inherently unreliable.
