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ianjamie7

GoodRiddance wrote: »

I would wipe the hard drive and reinstall XP. For all you know the hard drive might be full of viruses and spyware

How do I reinstall xp as I have got no disc for it and the disc for that particular computer has been lost so am totally lost, soory once again if it is an obvious answer but I honestly don`t know how to do that.

DatabaseError

without a disk, you can't reinstall xp, cheapest legal copy i can find eaily is £51 from amazon, more than the pc, though the cpu changed message worries me slightly, maybe cmos battery dead (cheap to replace)?

BritBrat

Sort the processor out first.

It could be a big or a little issue, try leaving the PC pluged into a wall socket and the socket switched on but leave the PC off apart from the power switch at the rear if it has one.

If left for a day or even overnight it should charge the CMOS battery up, then try the PC and boot to the BIOS.

Keep a close eye on the text as it starts to boot, you should see something like press delete key to enter BIOS/SETUP then tap that key slowly as it tries to boot.

ianjamie7

Thanks tonyhague I think I have heard enough to turn the Pc down. Never mind, it would have been nice but obviously no good without the disc. Just what exactly is a cmos? Sorry for the ignorance.

ianjamie7

Thanks BritBrat for some reason I scrooled past your post and have just read it now, so I will try that and I will let you know what happens.

BritBrat

For £25 you cant lose much and worth a punt, but as you know very little about PC's maybe you are right.