Toby Lerone and Madfish and even "Ben" at HM Dash - Many thanks for all the good input through email etc and advice we finally got there and my panel is now back running, Im just a little worried to go back and set the gear ratios to show the gears on the panel, if anyone has any advice I will take it, Cheers again guys well worth joining the group, Thankyou thank you. I ended up reinstalling the dash software and the the HEX files and off she went like new, I had go in through the device manager and using this link really helped with basic computer skills in pulling the drivers from the packets https://www.google.co.uk/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=how+to+manually+install+drivers+xp&revid=287085229&sa=X&ei=PFHrVIqHLMfmUviog_gB&ved=0CGgQ1QIoAQ&biw=1440&bih=799