Did you try to restart it a few times??

How old is it? The Hard Drive might have burnt out from old age. If your hard drive is a 20 gig or smaller then its more then likely died.

The smallest Hard drive you can get anywhere is an 80 gig & that should be well under 80.00, as a 200 gig costs about 120.00. You can get a cheap cpu & motherboard for 200.00 or less, a cheap video card is 60.00 & most mother boards have sound onboard. A dvd rom under 50.00, or get a dvd/cd burner rom for 60.00 (some are cheaper).

If you have to redo ur whole computer, don't buy one all put together all ready (too many issues with them), get you brother to put an upto date cheapy computer together for you. you can still use the same monitor, keyboard & mouse, so that'll save you some cash.

A decent computer can be put together for under 1000.00, & thats including monitor, keyboard & mouse. But just for the Desktop stuff, about 500.00 would make a really nice computer, that XP will work really well on, & you can use lots of art programs & many games, like the sims, zoo tycoon, doom & slots. But for a cheapy computer if your smart, you can get it for less then 500.00, esp. if your sound & video card can go onto the new mother board

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