HI Danzil,
I now have new motherboard in and working, sort of! When i booted up with everything connected, all good, the only message i had from windows was to enter the COA and register my copy of XP, which i did, and windows started up ok. Other than that the only problem is my wireless mouse started working, then stopped, so had to plug in ps2 mouse instead. I am getting no sound, have loaded drivers that came with board, still no sound. Windows says everything is ok, so not sure what that is! The other strange thing is my mouse pointer, when hovering over some areas of screen, mostly writing i get a small black box appear to the roght of the arrow. When hovering over a http link it goes away, can't understand it. Anyway will keep playing and hope i get it sorted.
Thanks for all your help, much apperciated
Chas