I have acquired a neat little HP Brio mini-tower with the quietest PSU I have ever come across. Seems to be a 90W output but appears to be plenty enough for the 550Mhz PIII processor. Anyhow, I decided it would like to live in the study in place of the noisy monsterous 350W psu unit powering the AMD Atlon 2K. I swapped HDDs and did a W2K re-install/fix. All worked fine for a few days - albeit it complained about the HDD for a while but booted anyway! But I have now installed some new digital imaging software and a faster CD. Things went downhill from there.

It still works - I am posting from it now - and it no loger complains about the HDD but get this...

If I want to go into BIOS setup I have to unplug the HDD.

If I try to copy a CD it tries to write the TOC and then complains there is no writable media in (I have gone through 4 blank disks!)

It will not auto detect the disk but if I set the BIOS to manual with LBA enabled it works. However, I do have to set the number of tracks, heads etc before I set it to LBA!

It occasionaly does not load the mouse and keyboard.

I have decided I am going to stick the original 8Gb HDD and 16x CD back in in place of the 40Gb and 50x but does anyone have any other suggestions befor I do?

Cheers

DtG