new PC, nuke and pave with a "clean" XP-pro install, not the oem-trashed-xp-home that it came with. It is an HP a730n 3.0gig P4 with 1.5gig pc3200 ram. Installed all my shop software, drivers, etc. as had been running on the old HP box. When Quicken is up and ... Login to read more.