well, crappy update: My notebook is responding like it did when i attempted a crappy xp install, it shuts down during initalization, every time. Now after the water spill, the mobo speaker screams like hell at me for a few seconds on bootup. I think im just threw with this crapy compaq inspiron notebook. Im going to install Fedora on either one of my towers or another notebook tommorow, im just having too much badluck tonight lol. Thank you again for the help -Tom -- This is an email sent via the webforum on http://fcp.homelinux.org http://fcp.homelinux.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?post_id=58641&topic_id=14684&forum=1#forumpost58641