I had to install a new motherboard and cpu on my wife's computer. She had a Nforce 2 board with a AMD XP 2500+ barton core. I replaced it with a Abit Nforce4 with a AMD 64 3000 cpu. I ran a Repair install on her XP home to pick up the new board and cpu. Everythings works except one thing. When trying to install the onboard network I get this message: "There was a problem installing this hardware:" Ethernet Network Controller "This name is already in use as either a service name or a Service display name" I have never seen this message before. I tried to uninstall it but was told that I couldn't because this device was needed to boot. I hate to format and install cause my wife has a lot of programs Pc -- -------list-services-below----------- Regards, John Durham (list moderator) <http://modecideas.com/contact.html?sig> Freelists login at //www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/lsg2.cgi List archives at //www.freelists.org/archives/pchelpers PC-HELPERS list subscribe/unsub at http://modecideas.com/discuss.htm?sig Latest news live feeds at http://modecideas.com/indexhomenews.htm?sig Good advice is like good paint- it only works if applied.