I managed to solve a lingering problem I've had with my freezing display after narrowing it pretty much to a hardware problem in the mother board. I had a new ASUS P4S800 sitting around that I wasn't using, so I swapped it in today, so I have that and a Celeron 2.4 gig, 512mb of memory, Nvidia FX 5200 video card, Proxim Orinoco wifi card, a 30 gig HD for Windows and 60 gig HD for Linux, a regular CDROM and a CDRW. I was pleased to find that everything booted, got detected and worked the first time, and there appears to be no problem with the display now. It was freezing in everything, including Windows, gradually worsening. But what I can't do any more is get Grub to boot the machine. No matter which distro I try to install and have install Grub, when I try the reboot, I get an "error 25" whatever that is, and the boot process just stops. For some reason Grub isn't able to pass off to the second HD where the actual boot sector is, and I gather, where the actual Grub menu is to select Windows. To complicate things, I cannot get Linux to rewrite my MBR, because I have Win2000 Server installed, which uses NTFS, which does not allow write permission from Linux. And I don't recall, or never knew how to rewrite the MBR from fdisk on a Windows boot disk. I've even tried to get Win 2000 to reinstall, but it is doing funky things at the point where it is supposed to reboot and continue the install. It just keeps going around again if the CD is in the ROM, and if it is out, Grub is still in the way. It hasn't rewritten the MBR yet. If I try the Linux boot floppy, it hangs at the point where it would hand off to the boot sector on the second HD, also. Does this ring any bells? I'm probably going to have to wipe the Windows partition and do a clean install, and maybe the same for the Linux side. Or since I have a Win XP laptop, I may just make this a Linux machine and forget the dual boot. Thanks, Don J.