Hey Alan,
Yes the drive is an internal one. What a problem my tech mate had moving things over from my old case to the new case last night.

He is going to come back tonight.

Of course he moved everything over, and then one at a time planned on starting with the C drive and once that booted up, he would add my other storage drive, with my various video projects on and then, my new 500 gig drive.

We got stuck on adding the C drive, the PC wouldnt boot up, so we started it in safe mode and we got a blue screen, searched the net based on what it said and we tracked it down to the Niva video card, it didnt like the driver that was on it .....

so we thought ok we will get an update from the main site, as soon as we took off the driver in safe mode and booted the machine up normally the computer loaded up fine.

Once the new driver was downloaded we started to install it and my computer hung up in the middle of doing this and we had to restart it, it was late my then so he's coming back tonight about 4.30pm.

The goal is, to take out the video card, and use the onboard on the motherboard as I am sure I read somewhere on here that you dont need a video card to do video editing, your footage is captured by the capture card and aslong as it captured in high quality, how your on board video displays it doesnt matter, it will be fine when it comes out.

And of course add the 260 gig storge drive with my work on and my new 500 gig drive too.

Will the onboard video be too slow, barring in mind I am using a pentium 4 and the reason I am adding two 1 gig sticks to my 2 512 sticks, because premiere 2.0 was slightly jerky when playing video in the timeline.. For a 3 year old computer its still fast with everything else, just using video editing software that is 3 years on from the software I was using when I got the machine (Pinnacle 9 and later 10), to peform better with premiere elements and later premiere cs3, thats why I am upgrading my RAM.

Therefore will on board video be ok, for the processor to handle the software I am using?Or shall I buy a new video card?

Can anyone tell me why after all this time would my computer not like the video card or the driver, and most of all not install the updated one it was asking for?

It is the same machine, just another case, its the same everything, except for a new hard drive we are adding 2 extra gigs of RAM. Or it the fact that the card has been removed and then put back in, count as the computer knowing that something has then been added again.

I would be very grateful for your views aspecially today leading up to 4.30pm when work on my PC will resume.

many thanks

Adam