So the problem does not seem to be the motherboard, you have a signal onscreen. Is the replacement motherboard identical to the one that failed? Did you simply pop the hard drive back in with the original Windows install on it? Do you have the CD that came with the newer mobo? (If not the drivers will be available online but expect slow downloads fro the Asus site if you use them) Have you tried putting the XP CD in the drawer and doing a repair to see if this will overcome the issues? Remember if you do this you will need to download and install every update and patch issued since the CD was created.

I once lost a kitten who wouldn't "wean". She was an orphan, & I raised her on KMR, but she never would drink on her own, & she never learned to eat. The vet couldn't offer any help or advice, other than to keep the kitten every day & have one of the vet techs handfeed her (my expense, of course). Eventually, the kitten weakened & died. Looking back on that miserable experience, I think the kitten had something like "fading kitten syndrome", & the kinder thing would have been for the vet to tell me that the prospects were dim. Yes, the kittens will be old enough to separate from their mother. If all conditions were ideal, I'd say keep them with her until maybe 10 to 12 weeks, but they'll be fine. I wish you the best.

I was having problems with tiny screws that turned but wouldn't come out the whole way on the bottom of a laptop. Started researching it online some and most who had success with this said if you could get something underneath the screw you could gently pry it upward while turning, my problem was similar to this but not such a deep hole, so I used thread and floral wire to get underneath the screws...the one that was really tricky I used the thread. It was a little more time consuming to get the thread the entire way around the screw and it came off the first time so I decided to tie the thread around it the next time around. Then I did just gently pull it out while using the screwdriver a little more. I know this post was years ago but i was linked to it today so Hope this helps anyone else who has this kind of a problem. (on the other side of the plastic there were strange little washers that kept me from gaining access, I think they are there in order to keep the screws attached to the plastic so they don't get lost?)

Don't tell people to use tools outside their skill set! A plane can't get into the corners anyway. Use a strait edge and scribe a mark at 1/8 inch on either side of the hole. Use a palm sander to remove wood down to the mark. This is a tiny bit, so be careful. A saw can't do this. A palm sander will fit into the corners and is a common enough tool that you can likely borrow one. A sanding block and some elbow grease will work too. Use a coarse grit first, finish it finer. You'll want to seal the edges since dishwasher/ sink areas get water spatter. The installer should have done this...