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You can use this for 20/22'' monitors Play.com (UK) : Play Value GeForce 9800GT / 512MB / DDR3 / PCI-E / Graphics Card : Computing - Free Delivery It uses 225Watt of power when loaded and 140Watt when idle. So you need a 500Watt PSU to play it safe really Hope this helps

Hi and Welcome to FPCH :)

You cannot change the upload speed - its limited and set by your provider. If the Xbox is wired into the router you normally dont have to set up any ports. Just make sure that the Firewall you are using is allowing the XBOX full access to the network

Right - when you originally installed the OS - can you tell us EXACTLY what you did after that. If a system is not setup correctly to start then it will never run as it should. You are missing either a BIOS update or an updated chipset driver in my opinion

Right - before you go spending any money - what size monitor do you have? and what games are you planning on running?

I honestly would not risk it - please list all your system

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I agree - if you have someone who can hook your HDD into their PC - this should fix it :)

Always a good idea - most of the PC's in my house are expensive and for the sake of £5 on a surge protector you must be MAD not to use one

It sounds to me like the OS has become corrupt, this can happen when the PC is shut down in the way you describe. You have 2 options, 1 involves keeping your data and 1 does not. You can format the drive and reinstall the OS (losing all your data) You can buy another HDD and install the OS to that and then slave the old disk and drag off what you need.

Have you installed the CPU driver? from the Intel site?

Ok - when you say they did something with the BIOS - I guess a BIOS update and then had to reset all the peramiters in the BIOS. The chipset again relates to drivers for your MOBO Seeing as though this is all on XP - I hope that they are intelligent enough (being university trained and all :D) to remember to install the SATA drivers before they loaded the OS Flash burst rates vary depending on size of the USB flash drive (its normally quicker to do 1 or 2 files and not say 200) Other than that Doug - they must be missing something VERY basic Did they load a CPU driver?

Well untill they reduce the price by around £300 I wont be getting one - lol Yeah they do offer idle/ cleanups - again I still say this is dangerous, how say you He he

Scan do an optiarc one - last I checked it was around £35.00

Hi and welcome to FPCH :)

I just wanted to add to this guys - I noticed dan_didnt that you said you defrag ALL the time - this is unnecessary and can you cause you more issues that anything else. You are constantly cluimping files together and reorganising them - as far as performance goes - this will not help

Windows would normally pick the disk drive up when it boots if there are no drivers installed - return it if under warranty

Go to nvidia.com and get the latest GPU driver. go to add/remove and uninstall the old GPU driver Restart Go to C:/program files/nvidia and check that all the files eg 192.16 etc are all gone. and then install the new driver you downloaded and restart.

Agreed - they are *rubbish*

Doug, what EXACTLY is wrong with it - I will give you step by step on rebuilding and doing the OS if needed

You may also want to check that the site is in 'allowed sites' in your security section of IE

Buy a new HDD and then you can install the OS to that and then slave your current one to get the info off. If you change a MOBO - you HAVE to reinstall the OS - regardless what anyone says - the MOBO is the very heart of your system and all the drivers are different from one MOBO to the other.

Its an Intel board - PM sent

And yes they can throw BSODs at you especially if its the GPU RAM

2560x1600 is a huge resolution even for that card - I used to have the same monitor and opted to sell it and get 2x 22'' ones - anyhow back to your issue. When you say that you have removed the GPU drivers and installed the latest ones - this is my definition of uninstalling a GPU driver. Go to nvidia.com and get the latest GPU driver. go to add/remove and uninstall the old GPU driver Restart Go to C:/program files/nvidia and check that all the files eg 192.16 etc are all gone. and then install the new driver you downloaded and restart. Is that the process you use? you may need to get Nvidia driver cleaner and run that. As for your issue for lag in transfers - thats down to the transfer rate of the HDD and your RAM and 1GB of RAM will NOT be helping your gaming experience either Hope this helps