Sir I have not been installing drivers and know very little about DOS what I have learned was reading and mostly just typing help as for doing a clean install HP will not allow it or I'm not doing it right I have 6 floppies from microsoft and it will always stop on the 4th disk with an error. when I do a system restore the C:\I386|drvapps.log and several others will say they are not recoverable when I retry it will take them but what I have learned from dealing in the registry it always has alot of keys that should not be there.