Swapped out the RAM, and the Chip, tried the original 900 M Celeron. Same deal.

I don't think it is hardware, unless it is in the MOBO. It has to be one of the periphial drivers I was loading. I had loaded the modem drivers, the printer driver, and was loading the scanner driver. When it called for reboot I did. then the problem started, a note, the scanner driver is last in the que. It loads after everything else. If I can't figure it out am calling the Super Geek I know a town or so away. You know the type, pasty white kid who can't drive yet, spends every spare moment in front of a computer.

I can't live without it much longer, and my wife is making no secret she wants online to play Bingo :~P