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Originally Posted by funkyworms
Describe "died". You probably don't need a new desktop.
Well, the first thing that happened is that lots of red lines appeared on the screen, then it froze. Since then, I usually can't even get to the stage of seeing text on the screen when it boots up - and when I do there are random looking charcters all over the screen...and then it cuts out from the monitor ("no signal received"). It would even be hard to get to the stage where I ask it to boot from a CD.
I guess these things are often the hard disk, but it sounds like the motherboard maybe. I'm a million miles from being an expert so if I can get a new high powered tower and not lose data I don't mind spending the doughnuts, especially as I could get a better graphics card and play videos from my HD camcorder. The question I have is what to do with my poor old desktop?