WE GOT IT. We fixed it friday night. It ended up, that all we had to do to rectify this was to throw the xp disk into the drive, reboot and then choose fresh install.....then choose repair when you get your options. The install will show dynamic upgrade in the list of items being installed. This removes all otherdrivers etc, but still keeps your data and the registry intact. After that I had to reinstall all of the "updates" and pull the new drivers from my MOBO disk and invidia's site. Because of the friggin HARD TO READ sticker on the back of me NEW IBM drive, I had clipped the drive to 33.8 GB, SO before the repair to XP, we had to do a SYS C: from a dos prompt (boot disk) to rectify trhe verifying DMI pool data. Once that was all done, we were in business. My VUE is running better than I EVER could have expected with the 512 DDR400 and the 128MB overclocked TI4600. I am VERY HAPPY to saythe least. Anyone who runs into this problem in the future can feel free to let mek now and I'll write out detailed instructions as to what we did to alleviate ourselves of this problem. THANKS PETE! and all that posted!! Akenaton