what are you like at understanding women? do they not realise fiddling with p.c,'s is far more entertaining than eastenders and corrie and though its a hard seat i prefer it here in the corner than there with her. lol! many thanks, it purring like a dream and if you want a laugh i'll post a benchmark of my old p.c.

lol, well my HDD hasn't crashed yet! Altough, the fact your PC is now purring worries me more!, but will mark this one as resolved!

Hi guys new to this forum but not new to the wonderful world of home computing.

Anyways i found the same problems on a customers computer (run my own support company) and i found if you went to the SiS (chipset manufacturer, printed on southbridge chip down by front panel connectors) website, they have a handy auto detect webpage which does just that and supplies you with the latest drivers (vga, sound, ide) for this particular chipset.

Obviously try to get the manufacturers ones first always, but this board is confusing as its got winfast printed all over it but its actually a foxxconn mobo. The fix i did repaired the customers pc and they phoned me back up to tell me how delighted they were at the speed of their pc, with me smiling saying yes and writing my cash-in reciept for the bank.

further update though, they foned me up after a week of 'fast pc' to say that it wont start now, so after testing out their bits on another mobo i find their motherboard is dead and gone, ah well. im presuming its the onboard video as it gets no beeps but powers up and tested that by using agp gfx with still no success. only other times ive seen a pc go like that is onboard gfx giving up.