well, I do have a USb 1.0 card installed. I cheated though, and threw my HDD in the KAYAK, and intalled Knoppix to the HDD that was from my machine. the computer now boots to the KDE, but there is WAY more that was installed on the disk than what I need. all I want is for it to host about 1.0gb of file on my home nwtwork. It is also running VERY slow with all that extra junk. It takes about 10-20 minutes from the push of the power button, till it fully loads into the KDE. I am going to run a memory test later on. -digital