hi all, thanks for the help lol, as this is a major ongoing headache lol, I think first of all my problems are, it being a chaintech motherboard, I should of went with something better, I can't find a bios update either which might help solve the issue, have win xp, not updated, 200 maxtor hd, which my bios doesn't reconize, maybe an issue? hace 2 ddr sticks of ram, 400 mhz, 1 is ocz and the other is ultra.