need some economy advice on upgrading.

So I think I fried my motherboard, because whenever I start it up it will not boot correctly, and it's asking for nvidia boot disk. THe motherboard itself is a lan party dfi ultra ii b and everything looks disoriented/ and words are semi-mispelled. The NVIDIA boot disk isn't working. And I have portable hard-drive, to where I can just pull my hard-drive out/in, so it's not the hard drive because I put my hard drive into my dad's hard drive and it works fine. I recently baught 512ram and a new graphics card radeon 9600 xt agp, and it's not that. I think it's the system bios, but I dont know what to do. I've disable few things here and there in the bios and it still wont work. And I plan on buying a new motherboard/power supply and need advice on what to buy at a non-expensive price. But before I do so does anyone know what it may be? I just think my computer is smurfed up... :(

Make sure that the cables on all internal devices are securely plugged in. If the motherboard cannot find any bootable devices (such as harddrives) due to a cable being loose, it may ask for a boot disk (the NVIDIA disk in this case).

Other than that, it could be a number of things likely relating to the motherboard. Check out MSI's boards as they tend to make good stuff.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813130473 (a little less featured than the DFI, but with a good pricetag)

As for a powersupply, antec makes good stuff, but you can find comparable PSUs made by Coolermaster that are less expensive and perform similarly.

Have you checked the BIOS is still trying to boot from the HD in the first place? :p

How do you mean semi-misspelled though? Perhaps it's asking for a boot disk because it's detected the BIOS has been corrupted and you need to reflash it with a good image.

Wellll it happened to be my video card. I dont know how the hell? :p But now it works, I guess the new video card is defected. I replaced it with my old one 9000 radeon sapphire, I think I may go return the video card and buy a power supply, and extra fan. My power supply may be bad, because my computer runs slow sometimes even with the 1024 ram it has...

Did you uninstall your old video card drivers BEFORE installing the new video card?

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Originally Posted by Yamaneko

Did you uninstall your old video card drivers BEFORE installing the new video card?

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Yup. Then after two days it started acting weird.