Everyone.

It's taken me a while to finish up and figure out what was wrong. I went back, disassembled everything, tested and then reassembled. The problem all along was my brand new floppy drive. I replaced it with one from a 10 year old unit that I salvaged, and it loaded and worked fine.

I appreciate all the help you gave me.

PS: It has taken me several days to get up the courage to admit this, I feel kinda dumb.

Here is what I ended up with.

ABIT KV7 motherboard 54.85
Athlon XP 2800+ 90.00
2 X 256 MB PC3200 DDR400MHz RAM 109.98
WD 120 GB SATA Hard Drive 89.00
Gigabyte GeForce FX 5200 AGP 8X 57.00
Lite-On 16X DVD ROM 20.50
Opto-Rite Double layer 12X4X2.4 DVD+- RW 61.00
CPU Fan EverCool All Copper 14.99
Floppy 12.95
Cyber Acoustics 5.1 Digital Speakers 79.99
Memorex Wireless Keyboard and Mouse 39.99
Powmax Lighted case W/ 480W Thermatake PS 67.00
Windows XP PRO
$697.25

I feel pretty good about what I spent and what I got. Had some problems getting what I thought I bought on eBay., So at the end I shied away from bidding and just searched the internet. Odd, the only thing I bought at a store locally was the floppy that didn't work

Shade