Ok this just gets weirder and weirder. I couldn't get it in safe mode, basically seemed to ignored my poking the f8 key. and it also has ignored that I have the xp disc in the drive, haven't tried to manually get it to run. Anyways, I took out the ram, ran my fingers over it and put it back in, didn't change anything, but I after I turned off the power in the back and turned it back on, I got in. But I forgot to mention this before, the colors are screwy in the begining. Some of the white letters are orangey. And this didn't change on the time that I did get past into windows. There were also scratchy lines on the screen until windows finally loaded. So, I'm still wondering what the heck is going on. Also, I tried typing in the link Drac gave me and I tried finding that hidden content file, no luck on either. Not sure now what to do next. Although, I do believe I should change motherboards, this type has been nothing but trouble from the begining. sigh I'm still trying to figure out whats wrong :/