Hi, When I turn the power on, it logs in to a grey screen, and device manager says it has found a device, but doesnt say what device it is. I am thinking it might be the graphics card or motherboard?? (Coz it goes grey and goes into 640x480 mode). I try to put the cds in for the comp. to find the drivers, but windows refuses to search the CD drive. Can anyone advise me on this plz. Steve

What's changed which might have caused this? I assume you have recovery CDs which should have all of the required drivers on? Try starting in Safe Mode (press F5 or F8 during boot up) & see 1) if it starts & 2) what drivers you have listed in device manager. "I know that I'm mad - I've always been mad..."

Well I dont have the Windows ME disk, as the copy of it is meant to be on the hard-disk. As for the emergency restore floppy disk, it no longer works as I have upgraded my computer, and the last time I used it it made things 10x worse! It must have happened when I moved alot of files from C:\ to another folder and also C:\WINDOWS to another folder (as I was trying to clear my computer out abit and would have thought all important files would belong to a folder!) However I managed to get into DOS and moved them all back to their respective folders. Safe mode etc doesnt work, gets to the grey screen and nothing, not even the password screen! I do have the cd's for the graphics card, motherboard etc, but because it doesnt say what device its found, and the reason why device manger wont attempt to read anything but the A:\ drive, there doesnt seem that there is alot I can do in this device found screen! I can press CTRL+Alt+Del to show what progs are running, but nothing is displayed.