andy thanks for your input, but it still does not work ws03xp32 now contains e100b325.cat e100b325.din e100b325.inf e100b325.sys e100msg.dll intelnic.dll looked at these files on the orginal system e100b325.din, e100msg.dll and intelnic.dll in windows\system32 e100b325.sys in windows\system32\drivers verified that these files were present in the rip folder also copied e100b325.din, e100msg.dll, intelnic.dll and e100b325.sys to flat files