okay I guess I will try that, even though my motherboard is made by intel and its a serverboard, so I know for a fact it definately supports pentium 4's, any other ideas before I reinstall windows? I think it is in my computer freezing up after I restaurt. (only when I restaurt, if I just hard boot it, it starts just fine, but I think that is what is messing my system up) is there any other programs I should run to check hardware or things I should install right after windows?