[BITList] Computer Problems

[HUGH]

Wednesday morning (bloody cold !!),

John,

My computer problems turn out to be very inconvenient, but not terminal. 
Indications are, that the mother board is kaput or very ill.  I have 
installed my broadband on the spare machine from the CD (with surprisingly 
little trouble) and I've got Outlook Express up and working on it. 
MailWasher has also been transferred to it (if not, god knows how it got 
there) but it will only take its mail input from Yahoo, which is OK for now, 
since I can get my mail via Yahoo.  It's a slow machine with very little 
RAM, but it works. My main HD is communicating with all this via a caddy, 
but it can't run the computer from there.  My next step will be to somehow 
get my Outlook Express address book imported from the HD in the caddy, then 
I'll copy my Documents, etc, over as backup. I was caught without a boot or 
rescue disk, a salutary lesson.  You'll have noted that the production of 
such is not on the preceding list. In the middle of all this I was reminded 
of the famous SS Fazilka tailshaft repair.  I certainly used as many tools 
as they did.

Hugh.