Thanks to everyone how gave me super support / advice re win2000. Alhough i have norton firewall on it now i am considering Sone Alarm free ed. firewall.
Over the weekend i took an old compact win98 PII machine. i yanked out the ram and reinstalled with my two 32 mb chips on the bottom....not it runs fine. This machine has 4G hard drive as it had been used as a server. However i cannot seem to get the bios info. I may have disabled this myself a long time ago when i first got the machine. However i tried everything. I looked in Hardware Bible, my PCBible, and www.howthingswork.com. I tried holding down the del, escp, F1, F2, and F8 keys, as well as alt, esc del and a few others all together. the only thing that happens is i get a very long ram check then immediately the win98 splash screen. i am not downloading bios agent from unicore. Other than that i am at my wits end. One reason i was thinking of looking at or upgrading the bios was when i was installing some software (office 2000 for example) i got "this does not appear to be a valid windows installer program, etc etc' But the disk worked fine on win2000. Thanks ahead of time for your help Paul Pavlik
