supasniper

thanks dude, that worked a charm but on the other point i've looked but can't find my onboard sound in there any ideas on where abouts it is? thanks again, supa

well i only spent £5 on 2 80mm case fans and i lowered my temps to cpu: 32C mobo: 29C (both idle)

Victoria Cross

that is so cool!!!

thanks to all who helped but i got it sorted with the help of Warhawk and as repayment to him i think my favorite (i'm from the UK) US arm of service in the USN! lol

there is a problem with the above info in that when i type fdisk i get a message saying:

how about a WYSIWYG mission editor so you don't have to learn IGOR?

sorry to rain on his parade but i knew what Fdisk ment...lol i need to know how to do it the HDD is a 40Gb Hitachi Deskstar, 7200 RPM, 2MB Buffer

No i just want the Audigy 2 but when i uninstall the onboard the only way my mic works is if i set it to 'on' in Volume controll

ah so that's it!!! so what do i need to do to format it? (i'm used to just doing it in 'my computer')

I got an Audigy 2 sound card yesterday but the drivers for the onboard sound on my mobo will only let me use 5.1 or 4 speakers and a mic cos it thinks there is only 3 sockets but i should be able to run both now i need the mic to not be on all the time cos i only use it with TS and i don't want it to create any feed back.

pub

thats what i'm thinking

i think the the prob is with the HDD itself cos i tried all your advice then put it in my other puter and the same happened so i'm taking it back to where i got it from to let their tech support folk have a look at it. thanks for the help on that but i still need some on the sound issue.

in BIOS it is in the "Primary Slave" also the jumpers are set to slave and the drive is connected to the middle slot and the cable just plugs into the mobo on the sound issue i can't find onboard sound in BIOS.

sleep

i just bought a new hard drive (to run as a slave) and after i put it in and hooked it up when windows started it said it had found new hardware and listed it but in 'My computer' it only shows the one i already have! also i got an Audigy 2 sound card but the drivers for the onboard sound on my mobo will only let me use 5.1 or 4 speakers and a mic cos it thinks there is only 3 sockets but i should be able to run both now thanks in advance, supa

LMFAO

Terror

one armed drummer

i just looked at the IBM home page and they have merged their HDD section with Hitachi so my HDDs are the same make/model

does that mean that you need the same size HDD or the same make & model?

useless

rotting

hmmm, looks like i'm going to break the trend by going for John Smiths bitter (pure silk in a glass according to the adds ) and single malt whiskey