I tinkered with Red Hat many moons ago but that was before distros with a decent GUI were available.
If I go that route I'll be on here asking lots of questions.
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Just on the off chance I googled the Mobo ( Nforce3-a) and after picking myself up off the floor there's a second hand tested and guaranteed Mobo in Riga, Latvia which will come with CPU* and RAM on ebay for £39 plus P&P.
Got to be the fix short term.
Order placed.
*CPU is Athlon64, better than my Sempron.
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