sorry its the otherway around shows 240 but set to 255. changed it but nothing, same error and same screen. i am right now at my local computer store with "almost guru" people and we are having a go. it looks more and more that the MOBO has to go. this really sucks.
like i said before i need to learn this stuff, this is just too ridiculous. thank you for all the hard work please dont stop. once i get this fixed ill be back to your site to get my HDD partitioned correctly and OS's installed CORRECTLY. thanks CG.