Yea I'm thinking that it is the motherboard. I am using gparted because this video that made it look really easy. http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/07/20/1654251. So is it easy to use the partition tool with suse 10.1? Yast will let me repartition my current windows hd. In the vid I believe it shows the guy creating 4 different partitions for linux will yast do that for me? Sorry for all the questions but I have screwed up a dual boot before. Thanks for your help.