Thanks for the tips, I tried your tips there, the only thing I didnt do was disable Com2 in the BIOS as I couldnt find this option in my Gigabyte GA-71XE4 mobo BIOS. It had troubles when installing the modem driver as it wanted HCF1103.INF and that folder only contained HCF1103M.INF I pointed the installer to my original CD that came with the modem for that file which worked fine. On installation I selected country (UK) and then the mouse pointer started flicking between an arrow and an hourglass but the PC still functioned, it was only when I re-booted that it wouldnt load windows again.
Any more ideas???
Thanks, Simon