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Hi Godey, any advice you can give me on this one. I bought a brand new pc less than a week ago and on Sunday went to turn pc on and wasent working, front light was coming on but not getting through to monitor or booting up. Took power cable out and tried a different one, connected it, turned it on at the back and it blew up on me!!

Hi. My advice in this case is to contact your PC vendor. If your PC is actually less than a week you might be entitle to DOA Dead on Arrival meaning you should get a brand new PC from your vendor.
If that is not possible the Power supply [PSU] should be replace free of charge, your PC is still under warranty. Hopes that helps and good luck.

Thanks for that. Just waiting for a reply back from company I bought it for. Would you recomend having another one or cutting my losses and looking elsewhere?

What was it you bought? technically it was not DOA as it did work. The bigger shops may well give you a full exchange if they are in a good mood or you hassle them. Depends on the place really.. Can't say if you should get something else as don't know what it was you bought.
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Hi. I cannot say exactly if you should be looking elsewhere or not. From my experience early life failure of PC components is not good sign. Sooner or later another component might fail as well you end up not having a PC for a couples of days if not weeks. Before you buy a PC, do shop around paying attention to the hardware specification and also taking note of the hardware manufacturer. Price is one thing but quality is another.
Hopes that helps and good luck.

Hi Godey


Runing a 3 year old 2.0 Ghz Celeron CPU with 512 DDR RAM and integrated onboard 64 MB shared graphics, top spec machine when new (but now now of course )which is not the fastest at screen refreshing when lots of windows are open and video editing software is running.

I want to upgrade, not so much the CPU speed, but was curious as to if it is worth getting a dedicated graphics card or sticking with the on board shared graphics adaptor? I dont play games but do watch a fair amount of video and video editing. Would a separate graphics card make any real difference in overall speed and screen refresh, etc.....

Originally posted by goldenfleece
I want to upgrade, not so much the CPU speed, but was curious as to if it is worth getting a dedicated graphics card or sticking with the on board shared graphics adaptor? I dont play games but do watch a fair amount of video and video editing. Would a separate graphics card make any real difference in overall speed and screen refresh, etc.....

A seperate graphics card (providing your board can take it - a lot forego the AGP socket when there's one onboard) will improve things immensely.

128Mb graphics cards are only around £30 at the minute and that will free up any memory that your onboard is currently using.

Celeron .... onboard 64 MB shared graphics .... top spec machine when new

Somebody saw you coming if you believe that is anything like top spec (even for 3 years ago).

Originally posted by punk
Somebody saw you coming if you believe that is anything like top spec (even for 3 years ago).

Probably.....but it was the best one they had available...actually it may have been 4 years come to think of it, I remember there was nothing faster than a 2.2 CPU at the time.......