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I agree that they used to be good socket 754 and 939 days were had by AMD and ATI were the GPU's of the time too (not owned by ATI at that time :D) Then along came the core 2 duo's and they blasted all AMD's offerings out of the water! AMD made the 4x4 which (cough, cough) got cancelled as it was rubbish and not able to compete and then Intel realeased the Quad core and well, we know the situation we are in now AMD buy ATI :) and they have released some cracking cards that wipe the floor with Nvidias offering - BUT AMD are fighting 2 battles CPU and GPU where as INTEL is fighting the CPU war and winning and NVIDIA are fighting the GPU war and will soon be back in front - I have said from the beginning AMD buying ATI crippled them and they will recover but in the meantime they are losing customers hand over fist to INTEL. I buy INTEL cpu's and NVIDIA GPU's and I do so as they are faster for the money and in terms of the GPU's the DRIVERS that NVIDIA supply are always better and more reliable. If AMD and ATI release offerings better than INTEL and NVIDIA then I will buy them I am not in a brand war - I just buy the best technology at the time, for the money.

Many happy returns :)

Right - download the driver GeForce Release 178 then go to add/remove programs REMOVE the NVIDIA display driver. Go to the C:/ Nvidia folder and DELETE all the contents inside it. RESTART the PC and then install the driver listed above and then RESTART - should all be ok

Yes - on the graphics display adapter, it will show 2 screens and you basically switch between the 2 on that when needed :) Glad that we could help

Right The 6200 is an NVIDIA card GeForce Release 178 The ATI radeon 9250SE is an ATI card Catalyst™ 6.11 Display Driver for Windows XP Professional/Home Edition You need to try both BUT if you are trying the different cards you need to remove the other driver and install the ones listed above. Any questions please ask

Glad its all sorted :)

Yeah - the CMOS is not holding the settings - get a new battery ASAP and it should be fine :)

you seem to have lost the internet settings - do you know how to do a system restore to an earlier point of time?

Ok - you said onboard VGA and then mentioned DVI - DVI is normally a GPU (Graphics card) if this is the case then he can plug the DVI into the PC monitor and the VGA can be used to connect to the HDMI TV

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You are going to have some serious issues upgrading that machine with anything - you would be far better investing in a new case and then transferring all the parts over.

That is VERY unusual - and the fact that it works in another PC aswell and not yours - right - pop the CMOS battery out for 2 minutes and then reinsert it - leave it with the USB card in and then see what it does - see if it boots normally

When I post under the red and green writing there is one saying PC Build - have a look there and yes £25 is a joke for them to install anything NO component takes more than 5 minutes to fit. Static - yes and no - but you VERY RARELY get any issues from static - If you are overly concerned about it then before you fit a component touch the bare copper pipe at the bottom of one your radiators. I have fitted hundreds of components and not one has ever had a static issue.

Glad its all sorted - :) Feel free to ask any other questions you may have

The green light indicates that the MOBO has power - so just check all the MOLEX's are connected to what they are meant to be HDD's etc. Check that all the cables are ok on the GPU (graphics card) and anything you took out - just double check its all connected to the power

Did you take the MOBO (Motherboard) out - double check that you have connected all the wires from the case to the MOBO and that the ATX power cables are all firmly clicked into place

You paid £20 for the RAM and they charged you £25 for fitting it :eek: have a look at my sig - it literally takes 5 seconds to fit it! HDD's are expensive from PC World as are all parts! I would just save the vouchers for things like games from there and when you upgrade the MOBO and CPU do the GPU then. As long as you get a GPU that is 16x PCI-E then it will fit in your new board when you get it -

No problem - its all passively cooled so other than it being a heat issue. Have you been in the BIOS at all? I would next try popping the CMOS battery out and leave it out for 2 minutes and then reinsert it - There should be no custom settings in the BIOS for any of your hardware and therefore you will lose settings but it should make no difference and we can set them up again later anyway. try that and come back and let us know

That seems very odd - if you boot the PC with the card in - can you get to safe mode? you may have to do that first so that it can pick up the device and then reboot normally.

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Right - I doubt you can get a card for that.

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Are you overclocking at all? - the distorted picture could also be a corrupting GPU driver or the Northbridge overheating. Northbridge is only really a viable reason if you are overclocking -