DonL
Jack of all trades Master of one
HP Pavilion a824n
Windows XP SP3
530J Pentium 4 processor w/hyper-threading technology
3.0GHz Speed, 1MB L2 cache, 800 MHz front side bus
1 GB PC3200 DDR SDRAM Memory
200 GB 7200 RPM serial ATA hard drive
Intel Graphics Media accelerator 900
with up to 128 MB shared video memory
That is a nice computer.
If you have the original software installed it should go thru a system check every 30 days.
The test will give you a message if it finds any problems.
You should also have a complete backup of the original OS on the second partition of the hard drive.