Hi ok I've pretty much given up on that hard disk problem. Would like some advice on a seperate issue if possible though. PC has been having lots of problems especially when playing games, crashes, reboots. I think this might be due to too much thermal paste on the gpu's hsf, I put far too much on when I replaced the fan when it failed but I have rectified that now and will see if it continues to crash. Last time it crashed before this session i am loggin in on now, it wouldnt restart, not even in last known good or safe mode, just kept rebooting over and over, the bios settings had reverted to default so i went in to check them, nothing that significant. The primary graphics adapter was set to PCI though, when I have an AGP card. I changed this to AGP and XP started the next boot. I have been able to boot into xp with the primary video adapter set to PCI in the past, as it reverts to this when there is a problem or cmos battery runs out or whatever. How come pc didn't like it this time? I do have newer video drivers since I booted in with PCI settings last time, I do not have any pci on board graphics or anything and last time I booted in with it set to PCi it was definitely still using my AGP card (Radeon 9550)... ? Also, in the BIOS, there is a setting which allows you to specify the "video apature" and this was set to 128MB. My card has 256MB, should I change this setting to 256? Thanks for your help all, cheers!
Dnt understand the first question sorry The 2nd one yes u should put it to 256 if its on 128 now ts giving 128mb quality not its 256mb potential
Maybe read this, it explains the function of aas between the video card and system memory. http://www.tweak3d.net/articles/aperture-size/index.shtml
