http://www.sagernotebook...=71&action=customize

You can swap out the chip and even add / swap nvidia mobility cards.

how but this one http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824009087

and i have not has ghosting on the othe monitor but i dont play death mach on that box

Thanks for the input on the monitors and the memory.  I read up on the memory and there seems to be an issue, but that may be with older boards.  Forgot to ask the guy about it.  Anyway, went back to Fry's yesterday when I found out they had the 8800 GT cards in.  The guys in other departments were surprised and went over to score their own since they have been sold out for weeks.

Here's what I got:



Front to back it's the mobo, 320GB HD, DVC/CD writer, XFX 8800 GT vid card, Microsoft XP Media, case, 64 AMD 3Gh processor, 4 GB (2x2) memory, thermal paste, fan for processor which may or may not fit.

Will put it together today.  It's 10:45 a.m. at the moment.

Okay, so I didn't put it together until today.  Something to do with the many bloody Marys I had to numb myself from the TG party I didn't order.

Here's a view showing the 8800 GT card is as long as the micro ATX mobo:



Here it is inside the case.  No space problems:



Other side.  Had to get another CPU fan because the other one was a quarter inch too tall.



I talked to the guys at Fry's who were shocked that it fit and echoed my concern about heat.  So I got this exhaust fan which takes up two PCI slots, but is not powered by the mobo.  There's a blue fan on the right toward the back.  Tried to add a fan on the right in that empty space in the foreground, but I couldn't make it stick without interference - need some spacers.  So instead I popped out the metal panels on the floppy bay and the bay below the DVD drive. 



Here's the other side.  Fan up top and I added a tiny one to the left of the HD.



And the view from the top.



So it's finished.  I'm afraid to turn it on until I have someone look at it for me.  He hasn't called me back yet, so there it sits without power. 

Update later.

Hmm it could be as simple as your BIOS is checking for disks in as incorrect order. I got that error numerous times. It's always easy to fix. That, or you could have a floppy disk in. I'm sure you don't. Now, I saved my old WIN ME start up disk, because even though that system might be crap, that start up disk is... well.. uber. For this type of thing anyway. If you don't have it, I could see if I can find my copy, and upload it to a file for you. That way, you could have a disc drive driver to start your WINDOWS CD and then that should be the fix.

Another thing - your 300 W power supply will have to go bye bye soon enough. 400 W minimum now I think for most systems. Vid cards and dual CPUs are power hogs.

Your heat issue - I use a HD cooler fan in my comp. That fan blowing on the HD moves enough air around on the inside that it helps to make a difference on the rest of the comp.

/shrug

Did you just hook up an old hard-drive and turn the machine on for the first time? If so you may need to reload windows again so it can be reconfigured. Just load windows on like a good SATA drive, or one in RAID 0 so it will load programs faster, and keep your old drive so you can transfer files back to your new drive that you use for windows. Also I have heard that 2 HD's running in RAID 0 is faster than one SATA HD.

...and that they're all plugged in and done so correctly