*sighz*.... my foray ended in (blue) flames. The SYSPREP went ok and the subsequent boot up in the T43 went ok. The system progressed to starting up until I just about got the entire Win2K screen (Start Menu, Desktop Icons, Tray Icons) and then went blue with error: Stop 0x7F (0x08 0x00 0x00 0x00) UNEXPECTED_KERNEL_MODE_TRAP By this time my HAL is already HALAACPI (because the T43 is ACPI Uniprocessor)... Can anyone suggest anything else I can try. We really need to get this to work... Thanx!