In a message dated 12/19/2003 5:40:23 AM Central Standard Time, Donnymacco@xxxxxxx writes: from the in built drive. It wont boot from floppy either. The CD ae definitely bootable and the acer has always booted from them before. there was an update to win xp that had this efect after it was installed.... forgot what one it was... but it was patched by a later one..... it did me like that on one of my xp boxes,but not the other two..... at the time I uninstalled it but now it has been fixed..... do you have all the xp updates?... and there are loads of them..... btw... the effects did not do every machine the same way.... there were hits to the media player,floppy,cd drive,dvd drive.... all sorts of weird "little what the hecks" occured..... but this was awhile back.... as I say.. it has been patched.. but a check of your updates may help...... chuck...in ok