As a final note, I replaced the power supply and underclocked the machine and it booted, but it was not stable. We gave up on it, went to an AsusP3B F and a P III 450mhz cpu. Sweated over that one a while til finally thru trial and error it appeared that the hard drive was too slow for the mobo/cpu. (Underclocking down, down, down finally saw it boot. Switched to an Ultra DMA2 Seagate 8.6G hard drive as c: and so far all is well. Thanks for the advice-I'm disappointed in FIC and think Maximum PC understated the trouble to get the patches for its FIC 2013 incorporated into the system.