Yeah it's the value of a music collection that matters, so I will be patronising Novatech and getting a nice budget system. It'd kick the pants off the old one anyway and cost far less than the original, I'm just worried about the feasibility of even accessing the old drive, I mean it doesn't recognise the 2000 CD, it always does the same thing, just about to start after 2000 has loaded the installation and looks like it'll just finish the process, then flashes blue and restarts. The CD apparently has no effect so if I cant access and copy any of it, I can at least have 5 minutes of fun with an axe and something explosive.

Once you've got a clean install of Win2000 loaded on the new PC, you'll be able to pop in the old hard disk as well (as a "slave drive") and then you'll be able to copy the music files off it - you won't need to have Windows working on the old drive as well if it's just the data that you want to access

Good point. Cheers for that I might not destroy it utterly then!

Not been on the case recently at all, thanks man I think you just saved me 3 years of collecting music, your a star

I had a similar problem with my monitor as well. I performed the D-A-L.com Online Hardware Scan but I don't think it says anything helpful about my video card. What should I do? Here it is anyway.
I believe these are the only relevant outputs of the scan.


OS Information:
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OS Name Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional|C:\WINNT|\Device\Harddisk0\Partition1
Service Pack 4.0
OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
Windows Directory C:\WINNT


Processor:
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Current Clock Speed 747
Description x86 Family 6 Model 3 Stepping 1
Manufacturer AuthenticAMD
Name AMD Duron(tm) Processor


Memory (RAM):
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Bank Label RAS 10 & 0
Capacity 134217728

Total Memory Deteced in Hardware: ~128 MB
Memory Reported to Operating System: 120MB

Disk Drives:
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Description Disk drive
Manufacturer (Standard disk drives)
Model WDC WD200BB-75AUA1
Media Type Fixed hard disk media
Size 20020331520 (~19 GB)
Number of Partitions 1


Installed Printers:
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Motherboard:
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Manufacturer
Model
Name Base Board
Part Number
Product
Serial Number
Version


BIOS:
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Manufacturer American Megatrends Inc.
Name Default System BIOS
Release Date 20010330******.******+***
Version Version 1.00
Video Card:
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Hi, this thread was running 18 months ago. Please start a new thread in the forum to explain your problem as the answers to problems that initially appear to be similar are actually almost always different.

The scan is not detecting your video card because it is "on-board" (it is integrated into the motherboard rather than being a separate card) and, for some reason, the scan didn't identify your motherboard.

I shall now close off this old thread but please feel free to post a new thread if you would like further assistance.