Robert,

Go into the BIOS & disable the on-board LAN

Saving date: put it into another machine as a slave drive & then copy the data from it
that way. Makes sure the other machine isn't formatted to FAT32 as the NTFS will be
invisible

--
Newbie Coder
(It's just a name)


"Robert Bowie" <Robert Bowie@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> my computer loads bios then tries to find a mac address using DHCP. It can
> not connect, next it shows the xp boot screen and appears to be loading.
> Next i get a blue windows screen telling saying restarting setup and it does
> this over and over if i let it. Is there an operating system on my computer
> and how can i stop it from searching for a mac address. Also if i install xp
> is ther a way to save my data?