It was my old copy of Win XP. Just 'obtained' a copy of WIN XP + SP1 that works and everythings peachy.

New problem ! I've added my 2 old IDE hard drives but the puta now hangs at the boot up test screen. I unplugged one but still did the same, unplugged the other and no joy. went into the bios and noe the cd drives arent recognised. Unplug both hard drives and all works again.

What have I done this time

Thanks (again)

Andy
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