Hello Valis,

Yes, we gave it a good run. I tried to do a fresh install and hit the blue screen again. Back to square one again. At least I still have this noisemaker drive with the OS on it. That's what I'm running right now.

And a big YES, you have helped immensely. This is by far the BEST computer help forum I have been to. Thank You!!

You wiped and reformatted the drive first ?

Maybe it's time for the heavy artillery

Darik's Boot and Nuke (Hard Drive Disk Wipe)

This should take it back to "out of the box state" absolutely bare

Yes, with the XP disk. Right after it copied files into the installation folders, it restarts. It's right then that it gets the brain **** and goes to the blue screen.

Now I'm wondering about a bad BIOS... whats the MOBO again??

Do you think that would work? I tried to install on it right out of the box, with the full xp disk, and still received the blue screen. BUT, it definately would be worth a try!!

Intel D945GCCRL Intel Socket 775 MicroATX Motherboard / Audio / Video / PCI Express / 10/100 Ethernet LAN / USB 2.0 / Serial ATA