PIII-700 384 SDRAM 20 gb P6STP-FL: AMR Plus Technology Mainboard SiS 630 Chipset Nvidea GeForce 2MX 400 64MB I recently had installed Win xp pro upgrade on my computer that had win 98 and worked well, except for sound and modem driver i had to update. The problem is that yesterday i decide to format c drive and installed first win 98se and then did the upgrade, but know the computer sundenly froze for no apparent reason while working in Word with Win xp. So i checked the error history on the computer and it said this: ----Original Message--------------------- Domingo, 13 de Enero de 2002 ACPI AMLI: la BIOS ACPI está intentando leer desde una dirección de puerto E/S (entrada/salida) no válida (0x71), que se encuentra en el intervalo de dirección protegido 0x70 - 0x71. Esto puede llevar a una inestabilidad del sistema. ----Translated Message------------------- Sunday, January 13, 2002 ACPI AMLI: the BIOS ACPI is trying to read from a port E/S (inicials for entrance and exit in spanish) location not valid (0x71), that is found in a protected interval location 0x70 - 0x71. This can cause a system inestability. I do not know if the problem is being caused by a limited power supply (i have a 250W supply) but I recently bought a internal burner and installed it, but i was short of power connector and an expert told me to get a splitter and to connect two devices from one power connector, the following is the way i have it right know; IDE 1 Master - hard drive Slave - zip 250 IDE 2 Master - cdrom Slave - burner Power Supply Connectors connector 1: hard drive connector 2: cdrom then to floppy connector 3: splitter then to burner & zip 250

what version of word are u using only xp office will work for some reason probably gates trying to rob us again but theres hopfully the answer as for power it is fine to put splitters in as long as u don't over do it

You should be able to reformat the drive, then install XP only. You don't need to install 98 first, even with the upgrade version so long as you have the 98 CD. XP will ask you to put the 98 CD in to confirm that your a registered user but that's all.