The reloading of all the original drivers won't work. I've done it several times now and I can't decipher those damn BSODs to determine which driver is causing the probem.

h3r3tic: I'm not sure if it worked before I ran windows update. That was the first thing I did. I like to keep current with everything...

I've tried updating the BIOS, but the BIOS I downloaded from the manufacturer's site doesn't work. Says that I'm trying to load the wrong image for my system... but its the only freaking download available.

I only have the OS and some misc. programs on that my OS drive. I don't really keep any data on there... I do have an extra drive that I can install to and see if I get the same problem.

I was hoping that the reinstall would be last choice. But, at this point... I've got nothing to loose.

thanks

Oh yeah.. one more thing.

Is it ok to use a ata-133 harddrive on a promise ata-100 controller?

I can hook it up and it'll recognize, but to be safe... I put my CDROMs on that controller and kept all four harddrives on the onboard controllers.