it's good to hear you saying that. thanks
took my small disk and fdisked the sector out of existance - setup a new dos sector and formatted. tried installing win98se instead - it ran but kept having problems again. could not upgrade it to xp.
re fdisk-ed etc and tried to install xp, eventually got "bad pool header" - which i am now researching :|
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rig: a7n8x-x, Xp-m 2200

, 3/4 gig mem, fx5200, akasa carnival - 46c stable,
cheers once more to rondog