i was downgrading from the os2 xl to the 0s2 5.v .ive also tried loading it without my expaned 128 ram just to see if there was something wrong with the ram and it still wont load further then the start up screen were in jus has mpc2500 (16mb installed) ive tired every os from the original os to the most recent on my 2gb cf card the only thing i can think is if you need the original cf card which i dont have any other suggestions