Black screen, can't fully load new OS, lost drivers

Hi,
I am trying to fix a Packard Bell i Media X800 desktop, with black screen & fan running, would not turn off with PC button, I thought cmos had failed, replaced that, CPU was not seated, fixed that, started up to black screen, it has XP home, tried to fix with my XP Pro CD but but loaded it instead, I realized I cannot use that, as I will not be able to activate it

The screen is hard to see, has only 4 bit colour available.

In doing this, I have wiped out the XP Home & drivers for Ethernet Audio & Video.
PC still has the XP Home sticker with key on the side

I tried downloading Zorin 6.2 32bit OS using my Vista PC, using a DVD, but it will not fully install or run properly in live from disc, I don't have restore discs for XP Home OS or drivers & of course I can't go on-line with it either, I would like to keep Zorin OS also,

Thanks for anything you can suggest

Packard Bell i Media X800
P4 2.5 processor
512mb ram
40gb hdd
DVD R/RW
XP Home 32 bit, but now has XP Pro SP2 32 bit unactivated

 

Hi David GP,
This is my first time I hope I have this right?
Thanks for your help, much appreciated!

Here is the S/N 2475777110 & the Product No P020160259. date, 2001
I did look through the list on Packard Bell's old page listing only to find that it is not there, so I wrote to them asking for a restore CD for OS & drivers, they said I could have them for 51.06 Pounds a bit steep for such an old machine, I downloaded Speccy via another PC & it seemed the iMedia is 2001 manufacture.

Packard Bell only goes back to 2004, they also said that my S/N & P/N were not listed & to check, I have a number of times & so they could no longer help.

I have no discs, it was a neighbours PC that I was trying to fix for her, she has since closed her ISP account & given the PC to me, it came in the condition with the black screen as I have stated previously.
I tried to download one of their ethernet drivers, but when I restarted the PC & checked it sill had the yellow symbol.

Can I get the drivers & utilities & then put on Zorin OS & delete XP that is not activated?

Please do you know why Zorin would not fully load or run in Live from disc?
Much Thanks G

 

Hi David GP,
Thanks again for your help.
Sorry I have taken some time to continue as I have bad health & am only now able to continue, here goes!

I have attached the Speccy report.

As for Zorin, I did the burn with Roxio, as far as loading in live from disk it would only go as far a the Zorin blue streaked splash screen with only the mouse pointer.

When I tried to download it, the download got as far as the desk top but incomplete & stalled, then it seemed to keep trying to install but only getting to the same point.

I checked the disk in my Vista PC running live from disk & it loaded & ran perfectly.

I had used the only discs I had, Sony DVD+RW, but burned it with Roxio at Max speed, I have since downloaded Imgburn & burned the DVD again, but at 2.4X, my' PC would not do 1X.

I had the same results with running it live from disc it stalled a the Zorin blue streak splash screen with just the mouse pointer, I have noticed though that the light on the DVD drive has gone off with the stall.

The images in Zorin have been crisp & clear, but in windows very basic & hard to read some of the type.
Thanks again for any help, I hope I have covered it all?
Much thanks G

 

Hi David,
Thank you for your help, I am afraid it seems to be all for nothing, I did the download & burn to disc of Ubuntu, but when I went to turn on the PB, there was nothing, so I checked the mother board & the green light was on but no other life, I guess it was a faulty power unit all the time?

Just for interest, I had managed to get Zorin to load fully in the end but it would never get past the sign on page, the screen would go black, unless I started up in repair mode, it did go online & update, but nothing seemed to work fully & some of the desk top was missing & flashing screen.

It does say on the Zorin site that it is a version suitable for older PCs,
Minimum specs :-
For the LXDE based versions (Lite):
266 MHz x86 processor
2GB of Hard Drive space
128 MB of system memory (RAM)
Graphics card capable of 640x480 resolution
Sound card

It was not a useless venture, because I actually did learn from it, hope others may too, especially to take time & research first before doing these sort of things & to back up drivers first!! Especially if one does not have recovery discs.

Thank you for your time David, very much appreciated, but I will take the PB to the recycle depot
Thank you again
Regards Graham