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Quote: Originally Posted by dc240969 Paul, things have changed over the years. lve had the best at the time. From what youve said you want from it l would say just get a net book, £250 - 350. My wife just wants to surf the net at times so l brought out my all singing all dancing laptop , at the time 2000, and upgraded a few bits. So can you do basic stuff other than browsing on a Netbook? Such as MS Office stuff etc. Im guessing you would...

Not sure about you guys but I have changed my windows 7 taskbar back to the original one, then new mac style one is crap.

Evening all, earlier i got an nvidia 6800GT card from work which i put in my tower replacing my pld fx5200, when i switched on again my bios screen and windows had a yellow glow to them. My system is msi mainboard, amd 3200 cpu. Do you think the card is fried?, oh i'm running windows 7. Any help/advice appreciated Cheers, Dave. e2a, since messing about with the drivers i seem to have lost windows aero thingy!

Paul, things have changed over the years. lve had the best at the time. From what youve said you want from it l would say just get a net book, £250 - 350. My wife just wants to surf the net at times so l brought out my all singing all dancing laptop , at the time 2000, and upgraded a few bits.

Could be a bent pin on the VGA/DVI cable, or a dodgy cable. That often causes color distortion. The question is with computers is what's changed. If the cable is OK, change the card back and test. If OK with original card, duff card! EDIT: The OS your running is irrelevant. If the BIOS screen has colour distortion, it's NOT a driver issue. BIOS is well below the OS in system level. Only uses the GFX, CPU and RAM!

Also check for a bios update which adds compatibility for the installed parts, for me looks like duff card, but check cable, connectors, pins on card etc 1st, even look for any jumpers on the graphics card or mobo that may have any effect on the video, also to get aero back do a system rating check again via the Control Panel then System page, it then checks the spec of the installed parts & aero should then come back once its checked...

I'm after an SDHC one Joe, but thanks anyway I've just ordered a 4GB Panasonic Class 10 card for £14.99 - thats big enough for my needs for the current time at least, and the best price was from mymemory. Thanks for your help all

I worked supporting computers and networks for 15 or so years before I retired and still do quite a bit as a volunteer for a charity and personally I would go for a laptop rather than a netbook. Most laptops are going to have a built-in CD/DVD drive and their processor is going to be much better at coping with Office applications. Have a look at the Dell UK website. I have a Dell desktop and have been very pleased with it and I have just...