At this point I thought I had established that the PC had power.
I wanted to know if the MB was damaged and could communicate with a new HDD.
I changed the HDD and attempted a Ubuntu 7.10 installation.
Only seconds into the job the Ubuntu logo went out and my monitor was filled
with multicolour (very colourful!) "snow" and this is as far as I could go. I
shut down and repeated several times with the same result.
I have an installation disc for Ubuntu 5.04 so I tried to install that and it
seemed successful.
Can you or anybody suggest why 5.04 would install and 7.10 would not?
My aim is to have 7.10 fully working as it used to.