Newbie looking help- please?

**beetee** · #21 19th Jan 2008, 12:53

I thought I would post some pics for you guys it might help determine if there is a graphics card or not.As I posted yesterday I know the motherboard details. NVIDIA nforce 520 .Here are some pics.

**philthomas** · #22 19th Jan 2008, 13:41

Edit :

I think this is yor motherboard, so it has :

1 x PCI Express Graphics slot
1 x PCI Express x1 slot

and from your screenshots, it definitely has no graphics card.

**philthomas** · #23 19th Jan 2008, 13:51

As a matter of interest, how old is this PC, because the spec is quite dated.

**serverguy** · #24 19th Jan 2008, 14:13

Yikes

Was this PC new? That is a very cheap board, worth about £30.

As Philtomas said it has no graphics card.

You could add a PCI Express Graphics card though.

**beetee** · #25 19th Jan 2008, 14:15

I have attached just the start of the report as the file was too big to upload,but I am sure somewhere on the system details a NVIDIA nforce 520 was mentioned.
The system was updatedabout 18 months ago yes it is quite old I suppose.
Cheers
Brian

**serverguy** · #26 19th Jan 2008, 14:22

I am fairly certain your motherboard was the one Philthomas linked to

this one

It is not so bad if it is 18 moths old. I got the impression you had just brought it.

Have you got any other problems with it except for the error messages that you can ignore?

**beetee** · #27 19th Jan 2008, 14:23

I see by all your shocked responses ,I have been had big time.
System originally purchased with an A3 printer for £1250.
and then charged a further £300 for a supposed uprade.
That what I get I suppose for not knowing what I was buying and putting my trust in the vendor.
brian

**beetee** · #28 19th Jan 2008, 14:27

On the link you give serverguy it mentions NVIDIA gforce graphics.and that does look like the serial numbers i saw when i looked last night K8NF6G-VSTA

**serverguy** · #29 19th Jan 2008, 14:39

The NVIDIA graphics are just the ones built into the motherboard. If you get a separate graphics card the job of producing the graphics gets taken away from the motherboard and given to the graphics card.

I think that you have been ripped off. What exactly did they upgrade...... for £300?

And I don't think that PC was ever worth £1250.... no way.

**beetee** · #30 19th Jan 2008, 14:44

The following was detailed on the receipt,
Reinstall to own HDD(whatever that is)
512mb RAM
New Case
AMD 3000+cpu
.Brian