Thats not exactly what I meant, the boot floppy works fine (to start with) I was reffering to my processor being an Athlon XP, the boot process starts from the floppy disk. The little icon in the top right does its animation for about a minute then the sytem resets. I've set up with two harddrives, windows xp on disk0, and 2K on disk1, with BeOS5 Personal on disk1. Its more like a crash in the boot so I was wondering if there was any trouble with compatability. I guess I should wander over to BeBITs and see if they have any info. bye, Scott ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- When is instant fast enough? -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------