Hi
Thanks for your reply. No - I didn't. I also thought of the video driver thing. While I know a reasonable amount about generally installs and maintenance, I do not know how to get around the driver. How would I "change" the agp.sys? I'm no programmer, and I don't do command-line stuff (although I do remember a reasonable amount about DOS, if that helps). Presuming it is hanging on the video (which is likely), and presuming I can boot into Safe Mode, how can I force the system to accept or work around the agp.sys? Also, for some reason the configuration I am working with will NOT accept a floppy drive. I've tried 3 different floppies, 2 different power cables, and 3 different floppy cables, as well as all the permutations I can dream up for which was around the cables connect, and the motherboad keeps reporting "fail 80" on boot. So, I can't update the BIOS to see if having the latest will help SP2. You wouldn't happen to know how to make a boot CD would you?
More thoughts?