[simmonc1]

Games I were playing would either start running slow or just close down. Decided to replace my ATI Radeon X300SE with a ATI Radeon 850XL. Followed the instructions in manual. Un-plug everything, waited a couple of minutes and removed the old card. Should have taken the new card out of the anti-stactic wrap before I did anything, but that is hindsite. Once I looked at the new card, I saw that it would not fit. This PC did not have an extra slot to make up for the fan on the card. Re-installed the old card, made the power connection, and turned on the PC. Received then, and still receiving the following message, “Reboot and Select proper boot device or Insert Boot Media in selected Boot device and press a key.” Tried using the HP recovery software, and booting in quite mode (F8). Each selection of F8 would only make the message repeat. The only thing that I can get into on boot is F1 (Bios). I was quick enough, using pause, to catch the following message:

BIOS Date: 08/27/04 13:45:15 Ver: 08.00.10
Copyright 2004 by Hewlett-Packard Company
CPU : Intel ® Pentium ® 4 CPU 3.20GHz with HT Technology
Speed : 3.20 GHz

Entering Setup...
Press ESC for BBS POPUP menu
Checking NVRAM..
Initializing USB Controllers .. Done.
1536MB OK
USB Device(s): 1 Mouse, 4 Storage Devices
Auto-Detecting 3rd Master..ATAPI CD-ROM
Auto-Detecting 3rd Slave...ATAPI CD-ROM
3rd Master: TSSTcorpCD/DVDW TS-H552b TS04
Ultra DMA Mode-2
3rd Slave : SAMSUNG DVD-ROM SD-616E F503
Ultra DMA Mode-2
Auto-detecting USB Mass Storage Devices ..
Device #01 :
Device #02 :
Device #03 :
Device #04 :
04 USB mass storage devices found and configured.

That is all I have been able to catch.
If it means anything, the main page of the BIOS SETUP UTILITY
shows the following:
First Channel Device 0 : [None]
First Channel Device 1 : [None]
Second Channel Device 0 : [None]
Second Channel Device 1 : [None]
Third Channel Device 0 : [TSSTcorpCD/DVDW TS]
Third Channel Device 1 : [SAMSUNG DVD-ROM SD]
Advance
Plug and Play OS [Yes]
Primary Video Adapter [PCI]
PS/2 Mouse [Auto Detect]
Onboard PATA/SATA Adapters [Both]
Onboard PATA/SATA Configuration [Enhanced Mode]
USB Legacy Mode Support [Auto]
Onboard Lan [Enabled]
Onboard Lan Boot ROM [Disabled]
Onboard 1394 [Enabled]
Onboard Audio [Auto]
Boot
Boot-time Diagnostic Screen [Enabled]

Boot Device Priority (When this is seleted, it brings up the following.)
1st Boot Device [3M-TSSTcorpCD/D]

CDROM Drives (When this is seleted, it brings up the following.)
1st Drive [3M-TSSTcorpCD/D]
2nd Drive [3S-SAMSUNG DVD-]

Network Boot (When this is seleted, it brings up the following.)
1st Drive [Not Installed]


I hope this is enough imformation for you to give me some clue as to what is wrong.
Thank you for you assistant.

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ok im not much of an expert on this but i noticed in your post that it said "Primary Video Adapter [PCI]
"

is this card you have PCI, AGP or PCI-Express???

cause if it is AGP then you need to o back into your bios and change it to AGP

troppo

[troppo]

ok im not much of an expert on this but i noticed in your post that it said "Primary Video Adapter [PCI]
"

is this card you have PCI, AGP or PCI-Express???

cause if it is AGP then you need to o back into your bios and change it to AGP

troppo