If there is a glimmer of light then it sounds to me like one of your key components has gone. It will be either your memory, board or processor most probably.

How old was the system and was it AMD or Intel? i.e Pentium or Athlon?

Breydon,
Could be bad but, I would open the case and check that none of the power connecters have come loose, the big one that plugs into the motherboard from the power supply could have worked loose, these are sometimes in hot areas and constant heating and cooling can loosen them. Check the other power supply connectors as well.

Power supply might have blown, its not easy to check them as they are SMPS systems and fairly hazardous to play with. Do you have another PC that you could borrow the power supply from?

good luck

Pentium

will try another power supply from old comp
thanks
how if i buy new comp can i read my old comps hard drive ?

Lesley

Norton antivirus has warned me of 2 non viral threats. It named them as gryyxxkq.exe and bgichfky.exe in the C;Documents and settings\owner\ application data\ files indicating they were lopware. I used the search facilities on my windows XP but couldn't find them on several occasions. The search did eventually find the first file and I deleted it. But I cannot find the second. I have adaware, spybot and AOL antispy ware all up to date as is Norton antivirsus and my microsoft updates. Any ideas appreciated how I could remove the second file, thanks

When you do your search, hit More Advanced Options and tick the "Search Hidden Files and Folders" box and carry out the search again.

Breydon,

Your old drive will be fine. What you can do is take it to your local PC world and they will transfer all the data onto a disk.

Either that or you could install your old drive into your new PC as a slave, but this can be complicated for a non technical user.

If you fancy it see:href="http://www.driverzone.com/guides/hd/install/hdinstall_p1.html" title="http://www.driverzone.com/guides/hd/install/hdinstall_p1.html">Installing 2nd Hard Drive

Make sure your old drive is set to slave.

sutherlh1 won't Nortn clean these for you? it should tell you where it is at least even if it is hidden.

I normally switch off system restore when I am cleaning virus problems.

What do I need to do to run two pc's from one broadband connection ?

Simplest solution please cos I'm a bit thick :-)

Cheers

Dil, are they near each other? do they have ethernet ports?

About 10 foot apart and whats an earthnet port ?

They are both less than two years old , one is a laptop if that helps.

I would go for a cheap router from somewhere like Ebuyer for example this one :-Example ADSL Router with Modem (I have not used that one but it shows what sort of thing you need). This box replaces the modedm you already have (which is probably a USB thing) It becomes responsible for the broadband connection, you plug each Pc ito it using an ethernet cable. (as your PCs are new you probably already have ethernet in them)

Dil, Ethernet recognition picture ;-)



and another

Dil, when you have done yours please come and do mine. Had a so called expert to mine and he failed, not seen him since!

Lol , cheers guys I'll have a look when the rugby finishes.

Looks just the job , ordered one.

I have two pcs sharing one broadband connection

One is running an application which receives data via satellite

Is there any way I can remotely use that application from the other PC?

Thanks
dot

Do all adsl wireless routers work with all adsl ISP's?

Thanks

Dorothy,

If the two PC's are connected. Also depends on the software as it might have restrictions to 1 user etc.

Velocity,

Should do, why are you having problems or thinking of ordering one?

ADAM - Thanks for that, thinking of ordering one from Ebuyer.com, just wasn't sure whether it would work with my ISP, which is Pipex.

Dorothy, if you have Windows XP you can use Remote Desktop to see the desktop of the first PC from the second PC. That is assuming that your satellite box is connected via USB or is an internal card in the first PC. If it is connected via a network connection you might be able to access it directly from the second PC and therefore simply run the application from the second PC.