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Unless the new mobo is identical to the old one, it will need a new windows install anyhow.

Is it plugged into your PC properly?

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Have a look in device manager to see if it shows the problem up. [URL="http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-US/help/2d8d5582-c5bc-4395-945f-5c6a273c5afa1033.mspx"]INSTRUCTIONS[/URL]

What driver are you looking for? What windows version do you have? We can only work with the information you give us.

One idea that may be worth a shot. Open up your "My Computer" and do a search for mbam.exe. Once located, right click on it and select rename. Rename it to helpme.exe then try running it.

Does the ram work?

When you say it doesn't beep, are you sure a PC speaker is actually connected? Did anything happen when the problem started like the PC being moved about or a power cut?

Another NO here. I have tried Windows7 64bit on a 32bit machine just to see and it says "wrong CPU installed".

Have you gotten the new install to format the drive or have you forced it to overwrite the previous install?

You probably have built in graphics. That uses up a part of your ram. It's probably 256meg rather than 210 that appears "missing". If your pc can take a plug in card it will be quite a bit quicker with one properly installed. If you ever decide to add one, …

Try installing the Vista motherboard drivers. That may cure the problem.

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Uninstall it in device manager then reboot your pc. Hopefully that will fix it.

hit Ctrl+Shift+Esc and have a look at Task Manager to see if a process is eating up processor time. If that is happening, let me know what the process is.

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Also, get the latest audio driver from the Asus website. My Asus mobo was only 3 months old when I built it up and the drivers on the cd were already out of date.

How come you don't know the password?

Do you have ata or sata hard drives?

The very first thing to do is to give it a good dust out. I use a cheap 1 inch paintbrush for the job personally. The second thing to do is to get some new thermal paste and apply it between the heatsink and CPU.

If it keeps on resetting then it means your bios battery is flat and needs replacing. Provided you have a standard pc and not a laptop, it will probably be a CR2032. They are available in quite a few shops and are quite cheap.

There are 2 possibilities. 1 - Place the hard drive in a zip bag then put it in the freezer overnight. It's a long shot, but it could get it to work for a short time. 2 - Take it to a data recovery specialist. This idea will get your …

Is it a pci lan card or is it built in?

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Fitting ram into a powered on system is an extremely bad thing to do. It's quite possible that you have damaged the ran and / or the mobo.

Why not ask your brother what he did?

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I'm with sparkax, what's the actual problem?

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What security software have you got? Have you run any scans? If so, results?

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Windows 2000 is too old and is not supported anymore. I very much doubt you will find any SATA drivers that will work with it.

I am no networking expert but I do know that you need the security enabled unless you want people using your network without permission.

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I would suggest testing the voltages of the PSU. You must have heard about all those E-machines that died, they were all fitted with the Bestec 250watt PSU. There are now tens of thousands of them filling landfill sites across the world.

That will depend on how much you want to spend and where abouts you are in the world.

Take it back.

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For future reference, here is a pic of where the PC speaker should be connected. The pic is from the online manual for your mobo. [IMG]http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q228/TootEmCarMan/speakerconnection.jpg[/IMG] SPEAK+ and SPEAK- are the pins it should connect to. This is what a PC speaker looks like. Either [url]http://www.clearpc.ca/catalog/images/speaker.JPG[/url] or [url]http://www.rainbow-software.org/images/hardware/pc_speaker_burn.jpg[/url] (but in …

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Is that happening with Internet Explorer or Windows Explorer or both?

Is there also a problem with the time and date being incorrect?

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