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did the mouse and keyboard work at all? could you see the cursor moving?

Well with 95/98 all you had to do was delete a .pwl file but with 2000/XP you have to crack the pass by means of brute force, I would like to go deeper into how but im not sure I should, I am new here and I'm not sure if …

What did you set the virtual memory to? min/max or one set size? can you verify that the exhaust fan in the back is running?

Boot from the Home CD and install and use option "leave partition intact" no format. not sure if that option is available in home edition but I dont see why not.

IMHO this sounds like it may be a dying/defective power supply, when your power supply is dying it is common for it to shut down devices like the hard drive, check in the bios for a line voltage reading, or get something like Lavalys Everest or Sisoft Sandra and monitor …

Uninstall Icon packager and window blinds, they are loaded on startup no matter if you are using a theme or not. If that doesnt help, remove AVEDESK, are you even using the widgets(desklets)? These are all going to have an effect on the windows gui dramatically. Uninstall them one at …

If your monitor is displaying the "no signal/connection" message then there is power to the monitor or else you wouldnt see that message, Check the cable going from the back of the monitor into the back of the PC, it may look something like this. Make sure it is connected. …

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Have you updated the bios? [URL]http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/format.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=gen&SystemID=INS_CEL_1000&os=BIOSA&osl=en&deviceid=7255&typecnt=1&libid=1&releaseid=R95593&vercnt=2[/URL] Release Title:BIOS: Dell Inspiron 1000 System BIOS, English, Inspiron 1000, A08Release Date:3/8/2005Criticality:RecommendedDescription:Inspiron 1000 FlashBIOS Version A08