This is a little off-track, but I know someone here knows the answer to this! I just replaced a motherboard in a system from a PII 400 to a PIII 1G. I had two hard drives configured for this system that I could plug and unplug into the computer, one with Win ME and the other with Win XP. All the support hardware (video card, audio card, CD, etc) was the same --- just a motherboard, processor and memory upgrade. Neither drive would load windows after I switched motherboards. But I COULD do a clean install with a new hard drive! (Nothing wrong with the hardware!) Does Windows (ME and XP) have a lock that prevents it from being moved to a different computer? Doug _____________________________________________________________________ UltraCAD Design, Inc. Celebrating 10 years of design excellence! www.ultracad.com ------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from si-list: si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field or to administer your membership from a web page, go to: //www.freelists.org/webpage/si-list For help: si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'help' in the Subject field List archives are viewable at: //www.freelists.org/archives/si-list or at our remote archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/si-list/messages Old (prior to June 6, 2001) list archives are viewable at: http://www.qsl.net/wb6tpu