it didn't. i got mad, :mad: i had to burn the first disk 3 times, started @ 52x, went to 40x and then had to slow down to 24x just to get the **** cd to boot (that took an hour) and then when it booted up, the max resolution it would let my laptop have was 800x600, i didn't even look at anything, shut the computer off, went to dinner and came back, now i've installed xp and am going to partition and put fedora core 2 on most of the drive...really don't even know why i put windows...just was bored i guess...hahahha