Sup
yea build your own pc man, if you have a question, post a topic! simple as that. we here at tech-forums are always ready and eager to help! (right guys?)
and the reason the onboard still worked after you put in the new card, is becasue you have to go into the bios and have it
"init display first (agp / pci)"
you have to choose pci for it to boot from it (that was just a sample from a hp)
and i have a question. is it true that dell has mobo manufactures bid and then dell chooses the one who is cheapest? i heard it from many different sources, just never been able to confirm it.
Compaq i have no problems with, there are three pc manufactures that i can deal with: HP, Compaq, and eMachines (all basically same company) i just have one comment first:
if you do buy a prebuild, format the hard drive, and do a fresh install with a new disk or something, not that restore disk crap, they just load the hdd down again. i mean my friends dell, brand new, like 80 processes. i have this other pc thats like half of that dell, but a fresh install, and it just straight out performs it like there is no freakin tomorrow.
thats why im thinking, why not just reinstall on your current pc? it makes them run soo much faster, or take it to a shop (unless someone wants to walk him through it) and have them remove all the unwanted startup programs and services, it does wonders to increase system performance....you know, msconfig?