I tried all these excellent suggestions and finally I just put win3.1 on it...what I was hoping to do was upgrade off the net from there but then more probs happened and well...I just thru up my hands and went screaming into the night...lol...and when I looked over my should I'll be damned if the laptop wasn't right behind me screaming something about leaving 3.1 on it...the last I saw of this laptop it was sailing thru the air with no wings...lol...