thank you guys for the help, but now i seem to have gotten into another problem, now the video card isnt brand new but i just hooked it up into another computer and it works fine but when i hook it up into this one and the video card wont even turn on but at the same time the computer seems to know that theirs something in the pci slot because the onboard video card is disabled and my screen wouldnt turn on untill i took the card back out and then plugged it back into the onboard. now i did notice that this pci x16 slot seems to be different then the slot in the other computer, the card doesnt fit in the same way either, any thoughts on this one guys?