In a message dated 9/12/03 8:20:02 AM Pacific Daylight Time, annieoldham@xxxxxxxxxxx writes: the chap wanted that removed and 2000 put on instead..it already had automatic restarts occurring before i touched it...i have done fdisk and have formatted the drive several times now but i am still getting the auto restarts I don't think you're looking in the right place for the problem. Quite likely XP would work fine if there wasn't a problem with the machine??? Overheating, bad stick of memory, no water in the radiator? I'd get the machine working and then worry about what OS to install. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A brontosaurus is a salamander designed to military specifications.