Medic911 Hey, thanks for all the help. Really appreciate that you do this service for all of us that need this kind of help! I ended up just installing xp pro on that person biostar mobo. As for this one, the KN8-SLI Abit mobo, I just used another program to bypass the activation. I just right clicked the authen patch on updates and hide it so I no longer had to see it. I got all the updates, sp1 for vista. Everything working good. But if I need to do this to this mobo again I will try another key. Again, thanks for your help, really appreciate it!