Sorry I have not got back to you on this. To much snowmobiling and other things going on. But I did try unhooking things and putting them back one at a time and changed the cables and settings to the CDrom and HDD and no change. It all starts like normal with the one real short beep, All the installed stuff comes up on the screen and the lights go through there sequence on the keyboard and floppy and CD rom but it still stops at verifying DMI data pool. The reset works but again it stoppes at DMI data pool------- and wont do anything else. restart with boot disk and win98 disk in it and same thing, goes until DMI data pool and no farther. So I am thinking it is a safe bet board is junk or I am missing somthing really stupid. I have a real big hammer in the shop to fix it for good with and get another board, but don't know what boards will work and have the wires hook up and take the same ECU. Is it possible the prom chip is the problem? The DIMM works fine in another PC I have, along with CDrom and floppy drive. Hard drive tests good to. TomW