hmmm. ok, but if i'm able to boot, it's obviously accessing the Hard drive. And I installed from CD, so it obviously recognizes the CDROM drive, right? confused. I don't have any other IDE devices that i know of... Jonathon Bob Gilbertson wrote: > Jonathon, > > Don't have much experience myself, but from your post appears it is an > IDE device it can't identify, and therefore doesn't know what to do with. > Perhaps needs a driver. Usually IDE device is hard drive, CD rom or > some other storage device. Suggest comparing list with known hardware in > machine looking for what is unaccounted for. > > HTH, > Bob >