Jeff ... yes, my old modem was a Sagem as well
TD... I've done that ..... thank you.
My biggest worry is this REBOOT message ...
On my second attempt this morning to get going, I had black screen with the Megatrends Logo which said :
Overlocking failed Press F1 to reconfigure system, Press F2 to load default values and continue. I opted for F2 and everything set up as normal. Did I choose the right one ?
Does this give any hint as to what might be wrong ? I'm hoping to be able to spend some time today looking at the links of Exo's and hopefully making sense of it ! I feel a visit to my computer lady coming on !
HP just spotted the red warning that someone was posting ...... Registry and cleaners make me shudder, but I shall have a look at your link later ... Many thanks once again.