I gave up on the machine few weeks ago so I went out and got a
Intel P4 865Chipset board
Pentium 4 2.4GHz 800FSB
Kingston 512 DDR400

Works good but I got no data.
I even tried the drive on this new system, infact this new system wont even boot to my OS the BIOS just says press f4 for setup, im thinking its telling me to disable that harddrive?
Thanks for the tip, im going to try that tonight I keep hoping ill be able to copy data never thought to use maxtor software though!