Jelly

can you tell me the model of the pc. and what mem you have purchased

check to see is your old memory is compatble with your new motherboard

you can user usb2 devices on usb1 ports with no problems. you can get wirless adapters for printers

try doing a re install of office

it looks like you are pluging it into a usb1 port these devices use usb2 they will function correctley usb2 is just has a higher data transfer rate Hope this helps you may also have usb2 ports on your pc as well try plugging it into differant ports

i would by graphics card that has s-video

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cable_select#Cable_select Follow the above linl it should expalin cableing you need to set one drive to master and the other to slave Hope this helps

as long as you get an atx psu you should be ok. E machines are generic pcs so i see no problem in replace the psu

have your line checked out by bt

i would try a psu first

should be fairley easy

You will need a wireless router to conect to the internet via your dsl or adsl conection

iIf you plug your laptop into an external monitor do you get a display. If you do your laptop screen is faulty you can also buy a cable from maplin that will let yoy put your laptop HDD into a desktop so you can get your data off it http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=28724&source=2001&doy=11m4

Try this it is freeware and will leave your daTa intact http://partitionlogic.org.uk/

sorry i do not know much about the bt routers i will look into it and see what i come up with