I may not care for AMD.... but that sounds like either, like you said, 2k cd is hosed or possibly something with the motherboard.

Are they all new parts or are you reusing anything? RAM? Vid Card? HDD? CDROM?

I ask, cause if you pulled the cdrom from a working pc and now it's not working (for example) then it would probably be the motherboard. If it's a new cdrom, how do you really know it works right? know what I mean though?

yea so AMD can kiss my ass... :chuckles: but I don't think that's where your problem is...I don't think it matters amd or intel at this point. I think it's either 2k or hardware, specifically maybe the motherboard.

Have you tried XP on there? I had a machine once that wouldn't take 2k pro or 2k server for anything... XP fell into it like it was born there. PC still is working fine.