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Many thanks for your help once again, I really appreciate the time you put into that. Now, please don't think I'm writing what you said off at all here, I'm strongly considering it. However I am not great with hardware, I've never once built my own computer and in the past I've endlessly had...

I also have Ultimate, maybe if I tried installing Pro before buying the new PC I could benefit from it? Also, if you had £250 to spend, and didnt require anything except for a fully running PC (I have keyboard, mouse, monitor etc) would that be an ideal one to go for in that price range? Thanks

Thank you for your kind offer, there seems to be some fantastic people on these forums. The thing is I've had this pc for years now and I've slowly upgrades various bits but now I've realised its just time to upgrade to make life simpler. If you were to buy the PC I listed would there be...

Can anyone tell me whether this computer would be more than capable of what is required? Link Removed due to 404 Error It looks good to me, but my knowledge is pretty minimal and I don't want to go on a spending spree to have the same issue again! If not, could anyone please find me a...

Thank you for that, I'm on my lunch break and just had time to update it but I have to head back to work now. Not ignoring the other responses but I figured I'd give a quick update. The update acknowledged the previous version was outdated and seemed to perform the upgrade absolutely fine...

Yep, the install was definitely a clean one. I was unable to find any drivers for the motherboard at all. Quite a few updates were carried out via Windows Update, one being for my sound card, the issue was definitely here before this happened though. I would be willing to try re-installing...

Thanks for your post, I have tried completely removing Avast! and restarting without an AV for the time being and sadly there is still no improvement. Thanks for your help too, I really appreciate your addition, the thing is though I would rather upgrade whatever I need to do to have Windows...

Well the computer died a few years ago and it was taken to a family friend to fix, I know he changed the mobo at this time so it's very possible that the mobo itself came from that machine. Mine is more of a mixmatch of parts now, but the HDD's and graphics card are all relatively new.

Thank you for your addition, I'm either being stupid or this wants me to a) pay for driver software or b) seems determined to make me complete a survey. I don't really trust these "survey" companies to provide the goods at the end either! Am I just being a moron?!

From what I can see, after downloading AIDA32, it says my motherboard is 'Hewlett-Packard 085Ch' a Google search on this wasn't overly successful so I'm assuming this may be well past its sell by date?!

Hi there, Thanks for your response. I ran Upgrade Advisor, it got one issue, that I only have 15GB free on my C: and tells me I require 16GB if I wish to install Windows 7. Computer specs: Intel Pentium 4 CPU 2.66GHz RAM: 2.00GB Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 6200 OS: Win 7 32-bit

Hi guys, I have had XP Pro for a number of years now, and I know full well that after a while it had always deteriorated and I would have to format. This happened for around the third time where it became nearly unbareably slow. I figured since it keeps happening, and to generally get with the...