TCLUG, I have a win 2000 pc in our office that seems to have issues. So no problem, I will just backup the files and reload with xp. Well it is currently very flakey with the current os, so I dropped a ubuntu 9.04, 9.1, 10.04 live cds in and thought I would save the files that way. Ubuntu live cd won't load. I have tried many different things, including the video card corrections, but it stops at "checking 'hlt' instruction..." Maybe the hard drive is bad, but it should load a live cd??? Maybe the motherboard or cpu is bad, how do I tell or test??? Any thoughts??? Tom Thomas Rieff GreenCare 1717 3rd Avenue Mankato, MN 56001 (507) 344-8314 Office (507) 344-8316 Fax (507) 381-0660 Cell -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20100803/0029646c/attachment.htm