thanks that did the trick it worked finebut i have another question now how do i do that and make knoppix come up in english and the woman that talks and says initating startup sequence i don't here her say that or the shutdown voice either and it Really lagy too Oh also when i click on a program like mozilla it will have the loading icon in the systray but mozilla never comes up and only 1 time out of like 10 i got it up and it wouldn't load a webpage and i couldn't read what it said when i gave me an error because it was in German Please Help again