AMD XP-1700, Shuttle AK-31 mobo with the KT-266 VIA chipset. 512meg DDR DRAM, EVGA GF4 Ti-4400 running the latest Detonator driver. Promise Ultra 133 TX-2 HDD controller card, with 160 gigs spread across 3 ATA-100 and 1 ATA-133 drives. 56X CD Reader, 24X CDRW, each master on a motherboard IDE channel. SB Audigy Platinum with release drivers. Dual boot with 98-SE configured as a 98lite Sleek install, and Win2k Pro with SP 2 installed OEM. So far P5 has installed flawlessly, run flawlessly, linked to outside runtimes flawlessly. Flawlessly enough to get an idea of the size of the learning curve awaiting me...