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No worries Catch. Im gonna figure this out if it kills me. I have my girlfriends dad helping me over the phone right now, so I'll see what he can come up with. Thanks Gary I'll give that a go too. Right now I'm going to try getting the latest drivers for the mobo and see if that cures the problem. Maybe my drivers CD was corrupted or something. (It's a pain though because my new pc isnt hooked up to the internet so I have to DL the drivers on this PC and then burn them to a cd. lol) -Rooster

Sorry, I dont know if I can make it Stumper. Im trying to get my new rig together. Have fun for me guys. -Rooster

My best DiD so far is Hank Rossington of the Lafayette Escadrille. Im at 6.4 hours at 130% realism. 2 confirmed kills so far. But I have to restart as Im on a new PC now.....err will be. -Rooster

bump: just looking for any more suggestions -Rooster

Disabling the integrated audio was a no go. Still wont boot up properly. I dont have enough time to switch the card to the other PCI 16x slot tonight, maybe tomarrow. Im going to try a few other "fixes" before I turn in for the night. -Rooster

I dont have 2 cards but its SLI ready Its an Antec 900 Case EVGA nForce 750i SLI MoBo EVGA GeForce GTX 260 895MB Corsair 650W PSU Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 3.16GHz Mushkin 4Gb (2X2GB) DDR2 SDRAM Western Digital 500Gb SATA HD Creative SoundBlaster X-Fi Xtreme Sound Card Lite-On 22X SATA DVD burner -Rooster

Thanks GL. This CD is SP1 so I dont know whats going on here. ahh good ole computer induced frustration. Thanks for the help though. -Rooster

I use Paint.net for all my stuff. I absolutely love it. Will post some screenies of some skins I've made when I get a chance. Prost ( i do kinda miss those clinking beer mugs) -Rooster

I feel like our house burned down and now we're moving in with relatives that still actually like us. lol Thanks for the warm welcome gents! Much appreciated! -Rooster

Come on in Stumper. This place has that "fresh start at a new forum" smell! mmmmm pine. -Rooster

Update on the problem. I reinstalled windows XP(SP1). Now that blue flashing screen comes up long enough for me to read. The line that looks to be the most important reads : IRQL: Driver not less or equal. Feris Wlf: I cant upgrade to latest SP because I cant even boot up windows without the XP CD in the drive. Catch: I did try resetting BIOS before I reinstalled windows but it didnt help any. Any more suggestions would be appreciated. -Rooster

Thanks for the advice so far guys. I'll try both suggestions and report back. Yeah, Catch if this thing didnt cost so much and I didnt know that the frustration would be worth it.....I'd have thrown it out the window yesterday! Putting it together has been the easy part so far. lol. -Rooster

Thanks Mk2, for bridging the gap here. Really appreciate it. Now we can bug Winder some more! -Rooster