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Try both the bios and chipset drivers.

You are already very bottlenecked, a better graphics card would give you no benefit. I'm using a Radeon 4870 (comparable to GTX260) and I'm bottlenecked by my E2200, which is much better than the Pentium 4 you're using. Moving to an E8400 or some such would actually give you a bigger performance boost than a new graphics card. Graphics cards Strongest Radeon 5970 Radeon 5870 GeForce GTX295 Radeon 4870x2 Radeon 5850 GeForce...

550w 80+ efficiency rating i would try your friends that have upgraded they may have one lying around Power Supply Information and Selection

Probably 10-15% at most, you would fair better with a x2 card on the the full x16 bandwidth.

Windows XP Black Edition is illegal software.

wow, thank for the link. Really useful and tons of infos. i'll go to bed smarter tonight lol. i used the Wattage calculator from that link and i got roughly 380W but that was with 30%+ efficiency and more things pluged to the PC than what i actually have so my *360W* should be good enough. i dont know what to do anymore. But now i know how important psu are these days.

That's what was suspected and the solution still works. Plugging it in to an unused circuit eliminates all distortion. Apparently the floating ground would make the converter cheaper to make and they probably didn't suspect it would adversely affect anything. I'm just happy I can have my computer plugged in without being unable to use my new monitor. By the way, it seems that if other things are plugged into the circuit there...

Ok, thanks for all the help, a few more last questions. I have a PCI wireless card in my PC, to get wireless internet. Do I still need the "hard wired" broadband/modem cable input thing/PCI card if I don't use it ? Also, my DVD/RW Drive, I don't use it, and I'm sure it must be using power, so can I unplug it from the PSU if I don't even use it ? Also, 7800GT seems stable, temps seem normal, no anomalies,...

I would suggest you try it in either another power supply that you might be able to borrow from a friend, or even try that video card in a friends computer. Might be worth a try before you go too far.

i ended up getting about six error messages all along the lines of what that first one said