Hi.....thx for taking the time to help me. Iam working on a friends Micron PC....Its a PII 233.......the machine keeps going into safe mode when you boot it up .After about 2 minutes in safe mode i get a blue screen that says "An exception OD has occurred at 0028:C00015E1 in VxD---This was called from 0028:C02328E4 in VxD" thx for your help in advance....bob