Thank goodness this computer's working again! We originally thought we had stuffed our motherboard but thank goodness we didn't spend extra money on a new one when this one was fine!
Because we need to do some video-editing on this computer (and we all know how memory-consuming it can get!) we decided to get a new graphics card and another hard drive. At the moment our computer only has a 65Mb graphics card which is really slow especially when rendering video and playing computer games! We're also down to our last gigabyte of memory despite already having 230Gb. So we bought a 256Mb graphics card and another 250Gb hard drive. After some playing around and formatting we got our hard drive going, but whenever we put in the new graphics card the monitor would remain on standby and wouldn't turn on! This graphics card didn't come cheap so we were hoping we had damaged it in some way so we could get a replacement under warantee. Unforunately after getting it replaced the same thing happened so we're stuck with this graphics card that isn't even compatible with our computer!...unless someone knows how to fix it? It is an ATI Radeon X800 Pro series 256Mb graphics card and our computer is:
Intel Pentium 4 2.40Ghz
AGP Motherboard
1.0 Gb ram
80 Gb+150Gb + 250Gb Hard Drive
After some fiddling with the BIOS our computer wasn't working for most of today but we got it going again today (even though it says something is wrong with our floppy disk drive). But...the new graphics card still won't work!!
you should just get a computer techy to do it for you guys... before your computer explodes or sumthing.
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