Help!!!

**jackdaw** · 05-04-09 14:09

Hi all sorry to take so long replying
I managed to get to the bios - changed the option to load from CD, still no luck, sound like the drive is working but nothing happens

It will not even boot from original CD, looks like a visit to the local computer shop, hope he knows what he is doing and will not charge the earth

**Britec** · 07-04-09 23:45

Sorry been busy or I would of posted at the start, lets hope you have not got to pc repair shop.

what you can do is take the hard drive out of the computer and put it in another computer as a slave, then your be able to access the drive and delete the virus or trojan.

**jackdaw** · 08-04-09 19:48

Originally Posted by Britec

Sorry been busy or I would of posted at the start, lets hope you have not got to pc repair shop.

what you can do is take the hard drive out of the computer and put it in another computer as a slave, then your be able to access the drive and delete the virus or trojan.

I took it to be repaired yesterday - Tuesday - They said it was completely corrupted by a virus

I am now 50 pounds poorer)

Dont think I would have been brave enough to take the hard drive out, but no good anyway as other computer is a laptop.
I told a friend I would like to learn more about the innards of these infernal machines

and he has given me a computer an old HP, he said the motherboard was US,
Is this hard to replace??

**Britec** · 08-04-09 22:16

Hi Jackdaw sorry mate could of saved you £50
and as for the motherboard you can replace them with a new one, is it a intel P4? or AMD? cpu

**jackdaw** · 09-04-09 20:04

Not sure what it is, how can I tell ? I have mine written down but cannot get the details on this one as cannot start it up.

**Grimsqueaker** · 09-04-09 20:41

bear in mind with HP pc's if you change the motherboard for one which isn't identical there is a 99.9% chance that the HP supplied recovery media will not work, so you would need to factor in the cost of a copy of windows as well as that of the motherboard...

**Britec** · 09-04-09 21:36

Good old microsoft, no wonder there so rich, anyway to make a buck out of you they will, you replace your motherboard and you need a new windows cd key

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