just built a PC and man, do I have issues, please help.

iking

iking

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I just built a PC for my parents with the basics, AMD 2.6, Asus board with integrated graphics, 2 gigs of RAM and a 500 GB HD.

Got it all hooked up, installed XP, everything good so far but I adjusted the screen to my normal "1024x768".

The screen looks stretch bad and when i went online to test it, the screen gets "waves" in it when I scroll down a page. I have never had this happen. What is up? Could the integrated graphics be the problem?

Also, when I paritioned the HD i must have chose the wrong ammount, My system says i have 140 GB free space and i have a 500 GB HD, what is up with that?

Thanks and any help would be greatly appreciated.
 
It sounds like you just didnt partition the whole harddrive size the first time around, since it only has 140gb left over. You can partition and format the left over with Disk Management and have two partitions. Or use a 3rd. party program and merge it with the First partition. Or just reinstall, delete the partition and pick the whole drive size this time around.

As far as your Video, did you install the onboard Video Driver?
 
For the graphics problem, are you sure you have an updated driver? That's what it sounds like to me. And if your using IE: IE is always choppy.

For the HDD size, did you use an XP disk from before SP2? If so, SP1 and regular XP disks only recognized 140GB of HDD space. You might be able to extend the partition with G-Parted.
 
I have Xp sp2.

Here is what I did. During the first boot, I chose the first boot as CD so I could install XP.

When it got to the partition part, I chose about 1/3 or 1/4 of the 500GB HD to partiion for Windows and other stuff. Problem is that I only have 1 500 GB HD in this new PC, so when I chose that size, it became the size for C, which is my only drive.

So I am not quite sure on what to do to get back that 300 some odd space.

Would it be easier just to start all over and reformat?

BTW, thanks for all the hlep guys, it is greatly appreciated.
 
To get that extra disk space back you need to use disk management (start -> run -> diskmgmt.msc). Then select the unused space and create a partition. Doing it this way will show 2 hard drives on your computer even though physically you only have one.

To answer your question, it would be equally easy to do either one (less time consuming to just create a partition on the unused space) but it is up to you. Do you want 2 hard drives visible in "my computer" or 1?
 
Thanks again for all the help.

To deal with the HD issue I secided to just reinstall Windows and do another partition, everything woked out.

The graphic issue is solved also. 1280x768 was the only reso that looked good on my monitor, everything appears to be fine but I did order a Graphics card any thanks to a great New Egg deal and rebate.

Thanks again and have a merry Christmas.
 
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