Thanks Leo.Most helpful.
Cheers,Iain

Iain

When you reformat always choose NTFS format unless you have good reason to do otherwise.

Done that.The only problem now is no Sound.Windows cant find an audio device.
There is a yellow asterisk next to Multimedia audio Controller.Can i download this?

The software drivers for your sound will have been supplied with the sound card or, if the sound is built into the motherboard, with the motherboard. You'll need to load them/it. To download from elsewhere you'll need to know just what 'make' your sound card is. Or, if built in, the make and model of your motherboard.

Cheers

best place to buy routers and gear for a three PC home -network?-WIRED

thanks in anticipation

IAIN

I use http://www.cclcomputers.co.uk/ in West Yorkshire. Generally very reliable , helpful and fairly priced. I took a 2 year old 20 gig HD which had faulted back last week and they gave me a credit note which paid for a 60 gig.

On a small home network all the gear they sell should work however I tend to use their D-Link network gear unless the environment's very electrically noisy and then I might go for 3-Com - Each to their own though.

cheers leo1- gteat little thread this for friendly advice-
thanks

IAIN

After a long and stressfull time i am now Fully restored.Thanks to help given here.
One Minor problem now.The keyboard has an error.When i type,the @ Sign is now above 2 and " is above ' Hope that makes sense:-)
Any ideas?
Iain

Blimey!Ive been clever and sorted it.

all I did was move my pc system to a new desk. I had to disconnect a few things and I put everything back together but I cannot get anything at all on my monitor. I have checked all the connections and they`re good and the monitor works with my laptop. It`s a dell and the 4th light on the back is orange and i think it`s supposed to be green.
I did connect a usb mouse to the front a couple of days ago and it said in the manual which I read today that the usb mouse should be in the back.

I don`t suppose anyone has any suggestions before I ring dell

I`m sorted. video card got misaligned

I recently purchased a new PC with DVD-RW,after downloading a video, I tried to
copy it to a DVD disc, but it tells me the copying will take 100+ hours-shurely shum mishtake?

HELP

Iain how did you sort your keyboard problem it's been bugging me for ages?

DAV, depends slightly on what version of windows you are running but in effect your problem is that you are running your keyboard with the US character set. Go into control panel, and check under 'keyboard', 'region' or 'language'. Install the UK version and make sure you delete the US one, finally you will have to reboot.

Neil

Neil, many thanks found it

Yes it was that:-)Bugged me for a whole day fter re-installing xp
Has anyone got Refreshie.That they could mail to me or know a web address.Lost it since i had to reformat.

Download site for Free RefreshIE - auto-refresh web pages

Also

Incatec - auto-refresh web pages. Just insert the URL of the page you require to refresh and add the interval in seconds

For IE refresh try Yrefresher (bottom of page). It installs a toolbar in each IE window (which you can shrink to a button) so that you can refresh each window separately by pressing the button and specifying a time interval.

Please, if you use autorefreshers on MoneyAM be reasonable with your chosen refresh period for any given page...

J