Cheers Guys!!! Thanks Gareth,, i got it!

Ish - cheers mate. I've done my searching and found those links already tho


I am getting error message on bootup saying... "hal.dll is missing or corrupt. Please re-install". So at least I can try doing that and then see what the next error message says

Will let ya know how it goes this evening.


BTW - this happened 'cos my computer overheated. Just suddenly crashed, and I felt the case and it was really hot. Turned back on straight away and it crashed again near end of windows load (I was chip leader on online poker at the time u see ) and wanted to get back in. LOL. Now it dont wana load at all. I think the cpu fan is ok. Think power supply fan has packed up. CPU sits next to power supply in my case. it was really hot!
Oh joy. I am pretty good at sorting this shite out tho.

steve