Kobi wrote: > I bought a new computer recently. > i heard there was an athlon xp patch, so i didn't worry and got > a cheap AMD athlon xp 1700+ > it came with a sis motherboard. There is a plenty of possibilities for you; the best one might be the Athlon XP boot disk made by François. It allows to boot a BeOS R5 system from disk on an Athlon, so you can install it from CD or just start and existing installation and fix this one. Adios... Axel.