Solved! Got win 2000 in and nary a problem. I guess I never will know what it was. Thanks everyone for the suggestions Joel
Dale, thanks I had already tried several variations on my ram. Mattman, I have run dxdiag several times in this process and the tests are all...
I've got a p3 733 on an asus cuv4x with a rage 128-16mb video card. I'm not a gamer, the problems are with 2-d stuff like word, publisher,...
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