Thanks Josh ! I may have to bring it in by Saturday however, as it looks like we're going down into the 30's as early as Sunday ! Ugh !

Thanks Joe, That's how I do it or did it. I got the Win 7 Public Beta release now with a product key that is good till August 1st, so I'm going to put Win 7 on a secondary HD, since my main HD is a 74GB WD Raptor, which doesn't give me much wiggle room for 2 OS's and long term future use, the good thing is that's it's 10,000 rpm, but for tons of software, that's small. Never tried a triple boot, interesting. grandms, the 128MB on-board graphics will be fine. I did Vista with a 32MB card and really didn't miss out on much, in fact they were selling Vista ready computers with only 32MB. If you're into 3D and gaming graphics performance like the kids, then you'll a need big buck video card, but for desktop performance for Windows Aero, you're good to go. I'm liking Win 7, sure there are preliminary bugs and crashes at times doing some things with different software and reports are sent to MS, but that's why it's beta and testing and why they released the public beta to the first 2.5 million people, to get feedback. There was a big demand and release was delayed 6-8 hours while more servers were set up to handle the traffic so you'd have a good download experience with a little speed.

I found this in the 'ATI Home 2009' User Guide: "Use Rights: Assigning the License. Before you run any instance of the Software under a Software License, you must assign that license to one of your PCs and that PC is the licensed PC for that particular Software License. You may assign other Software Licenses to the same PC, but you may not assign the same PC License to more than one PC except as identified herein. You may reassign a Software License if you retire the licensed PC due to permanent PC failure. If you reassign a Software License, the PC to which you reassign the license becomes the new licensed PC for that particular Software License. Running Instances of the Software. You have the rights to run the Software on one (1) PC. Every PC creating an image and every PC to which an image is either deployed to or restored from must have a valid license." Witz

ok I can answer some of them. so you have a gig in your pc as 2x512 so to go up another gig you would have to change to 2x1gig sticks unless you happen to have 4 slots with 2 still empty. you can do a 1 gig stick and a 512 stick but it is better to have them matched. Now to know what your pc can take I would run belarc advisor, it will tell you exactly how many slots you have how much it can take and what type of memory you need. I will give you the link for that. I always say the best thing to upgrade first is the RAM often times once you have upped the ram you will find a lot of things that were giving you problems work better and video can be one of those. That is no guarantee though. But it sure can not hurt anything. I usually get my Ram from newegg.com they have very good prices, I just paid $18 for a 1 gig stick for one of my pcs. I got Kingston. For the video cards I will let some one else that knows more about those answer you. But why did the one you got not work what was the problem? Here is a link that might be useful: free belarc