Not mobile phones - PCs instead.

7 Pro 64bit seemed just fine

 

That's a genuine LOL, here.

<ahem>

 

And so's that!

What a good day - thank you, gents.

 

Haha! I do that too ... unfortunately Elly's system seems to
countermand mine.

 

This seems a suitable point to acknowledge your stepping aside from the
machine I'm using, which with the addition of a suitable graphics card
and couple of HDDs is providing sterling service still. And it is
still enormously quieter than the barn-sized thing it replaced, for
which Elly is suitably grateful, on a regular basis ;-)

 

All in good time son, all in good time. There's none spare atm.

 

Well, I got new mobo, more, better, RAM, and a new heatsink/fan.

Plonked it all in, wired it up, and Win7 refuses to load. It does its
little diagnostics nonsense for ages, then says it has no solutions.

BIOS wilfully ignores CD/DVD drive, too.

Does it matter which SATA channel drives are plugged into?

 

Found it now. Offers to reinstall Win7.

I shall move everything important to somewhere else first.

Thank goodness for system restore. All back as was.

Will have another fiddle at the weekend.