shioot, dude my computer boots no problem. I don't use win2000 which is a hog. I have 98se and it rocks. no problemos here. you actually thiink having more memory makes your computer boot faster. win98 doesn't even see past 96Mb and it hardly ever uses much past that. no I didn't say programs don't use it, but windows 98 doesn't. besides you can only go so fast and then your eyes won't see any difference after that. so it is like going from a 500Mhz cpu to a 1.2Ghz. you won't see the difference becasue of your eyes.