Sorry to hijack this thread but I fixed my computer!!! I believe that my computer was designed to run Windows 2000 / ME but hp just slapped a copy of XP on it to attract customers. So i made a MS - DOS boot disk with my laptop, used tit to re-format my computers hard disk, and since XP came per-installed and i only have a Windows 98 SE disk, i installed 98. It is working on setting up win 98 on my computer and it will be done in a few. I can tell from the speed my computer is running 98 works better than XP on my computer