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Well it looks like I have to look into linux on my new Stepnote. I tried installing XP on it, and it hung too, this time on pci.sys. I tried installing windows 2000 first and then xp, but no go. I may purchase another (newer) XP version that comes with SP2, but not willing to pay for it without knowing it will work.

 In the meantime I will try linux on this thing, specifically ubuntu. Ubuntu has the problem i mentioned before, about the PIO/MMIO mode for the Realtex ethernet chip. I found this site that gives a distribution of ubuntu that doesnt have this problem (it fixes the sdhc driver problem as well). It is nominally for another laptop, but I believe this will work.

http://www.fitzenreiter.de/averatec/index-e.htm

More on this once I get this installed.