Right tried that,same beeps one long three short,took the motherboard out of the case so it was easier to work on,removed memory sticks graphic card,switched on,fusilade of beeps so replaced single memory stick and graphic card and lo it booted up! success!! went straight into repair startup mode,after a while it said it could not repair startup,(buggah)tried spare hard disk,booted as normal,so looks like whatever it was was hard disk related.
thanks for the help/
Just gonna put the machine back together again and operate from the old hard disk, mebee format the win7 disk and reload the operating system.
