I've managed to sort most of the probs out by starting again and reinstalling bios then chipset then netoworks first PSA DX diag.
The only yellow ? I have is against something called scan.
The only prob I'm having is downloading xp SP3, every file I download errors with corrupt by the time it starts to unpack. I have an iso download and will try that option next. I think I got it covered now thanks for all your help its been much appreciated. You can close this thread if you want.