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Sorry about the delay

I went into Safe Mode and deleted the PCI Bus. There were two. One was called PCI Bus and the other was SiS (chipset) PCI bus Master. I uninstalled them both and it booted but when I went back to Windows, the only new hardware it found (or at least said it found onscreen) was the DVD drive.

Then I restarted and it wouldn't display any video again

Anymore options?

Oh my head hertz. I didn't know it was a TV-out senerio. That changes just about everything we were troubleshooting. TV-Out isn't the same as having a standard display connected. There are several post on the internet about the TV-Out not working with this card very well. It definately won't work if you have DVI connected. The change in the Refresh Rate was only meant to be used if it was an LCD Display for the computer. TV should not be switched. Keep at 60 mHz. This is probably a driver issue. I would pull the PCI-bus and reinstall the driver. That should take care of it.

I had the problem when using a VGA monitor too so I dont think the output is the issue.

I'll update to the latest drivers now and see if that helps. Also have another issue but I'll make a thread because its separate although could be related.

Okay I updated the drivers but to no avail.

Is there anything else that could possibly fix it?

I'll be cleaning the PC out with compressed air this weekend, that seems to be the only thing I haven't tried...

So it has a Monitor that you can connect? Let's trouble shoot with that. The only thing you needed to remove was the PCI-bus, not the chipset. ACPI intertwines with the chipset. No telling what that caused. Got any spare parts? Tried adding a different video card? That would be the only thing at this point that I would question. Does the system have onboard video as well as the nVidia card that you have?

Yeah it has onboard. I've switched to that but got the same problem. Unfortunately I don't have another video card...or not one that will fit this mobo anyway. My other card is PCI-E and this mobo doesnt support it.

I'll try taking the card out, switching to onboard and uninstalling the PCI Bus and see what happens.

I'll try with one stick of RAM too, even though I've tried that before. I'll be bock.

Well that didn't work.

I was going to just give in and buy a new mobo but can't find any that take DDR! (mATX) Its all DDR2 nowadays.

So the only option is to go back to 256MB RAM. Could getting some that operates at 200 or 133MHz fix the problem? Is that likely?

The current RAM has a max frequency of 400Mhz but is being limited to 200 by the motherboard.

Advice please