I thought about what you guys have said so on friday I bought a radeon 8500 64MB at frys. the rebate was gone but no biggie. when I got it home I went to the add/remove programs folder. from there I removed all my nvidia drivers. I restarted with my new radeon 8500 in plase and and turned installed the drivers from the CD after that I played quake 3 for a bit and realized that the Q3 "optomiser" was in so I go to atis page get there latest driver (not the rage 3d one) and restart. now I keep getting messages that say "delayed write failure" and "program cannot save allthe data from 'c:/$mts...' now I cant connect to the internet, print things, delete the drivers via add/remove programs or anything. and the worst part is it plays Quake three like a dream!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
AMd athlon t-bird 1000 @1000
via chipset
asus
8500
512 sdRAM