Your model has onboard video, and also has a PCI-E X16 video slot available: http://www.emachines.com/support/pr... NOTE that emachines has a reputation of using power supplies in their computers that tend to fail a lot more often than average, and when they do fail completely, the el-cheapo PS is a lot more likely than average to damage something other than themselves, especially if the PS brand is Bestec. Check your PS. See response 4 in this: http://www.computing.net/hardware/w...

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Tubesandwires... Thank you so much for your help. You are truly a patient being. I don't know a lot about computers and I don't have a lot of money to pay out for help. That is why I am trying to figure it out before I take it somewhere. I was hoping it was something I could fix easily. It was worth trying. Again thank you for your time and patience. Sincerely, Cindycr

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If you search the web for: PCI-E video card you'll find ones with older chipsets are quite cheap - if you don't play high end games you probably won't notice a difference if the chipset is older. However, since you have a NVidia main chipset, I recommend you choose a video card with an NVidia chipset. I recently had a bunch of problems with an ATI chipset video card on a mboard with an NVidia chipset - apparently ATI's Catalyst Control Center software doesn't get along with the NVidia chipset drivers and can't load. ATI says it's because of something oddball in the NVidia drivers for the recent NVidia main chipsets, but they haven't found a solution yet. NVidia is very unlikely to do anything about the problem. ATI chipset cards work fine in mboards with AMD/ATI and Via and other brands of main chipsets, and in NVidia main chipset mboards that use older NVidia drivers (such that the drivers no longer are being updated). Local smaller places that repair computers and build custom computers ad have lots of computer parts probably have cheap PCI_E cards too. One advantage of using a video card rather than onboard video is the same ram works better - the max ram bandwidth is greatly restricted when you use onboard video, to as little as half what it is with a card installed - using a card removes that restriction - the video and the computer performance in general will be noticably better when the computer is being stressed more, even if the card chipset isn't as good as the onboard video chipset.

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Tubes...will you look at this card and see if it will work for me? http://www.directron.com/128a8n303l... Thanks, Cindycr

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It won't - that's an AGP card. You need to look for a PCI-E card because that's the type of video slot you have. The contacts on the bottom of the card are arranged differently, the card won't fit in your slot, and most if not all PCI-E cards are 16X, a max speed twice as fast as the 8X AGP card you found. The thing about ordering from the web is you usually have to pay shipping as well - in this case that could cost you as much as the card, unless you select having it shipped a cheaper slower way, but many vendors only ship more expensive faster ways. Local smaller places like I mentioned often have cheap cards too, and there is no shipping charges if you pick a card up yourself. In larger cities some larger places may have lots of parts too, but beware of the big box stores that are focused mainly on selling brand name systems that may overcharge for parts, if they even have what you need. The smaller places, often owned and staffed by asians, who often mostly build custom computer systems, often have excellent prices on parts. If you don't know where to look locally, look in your yellow pages in the computer repair or computer parts listings or similar - many local places also have websites you can look at, and the url may be right there in front of you in an ad.

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Tubes... Thanks so much for your help. I ordered a video card from Tiger Direct and got it today. I just put it in and much to EWEN's surprise, I bet, it WORKS!!!!!! It was very easy to install. It cost 40 bucks and that is all I have in it. Saved the fee that someone would have charged me to diagnose the problem and the installation too. I appreciate your patience and your help very much. Thanks a ton, Cindycr

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That's good to hear! One never knows for sure whether what you did will work with an emachines computer because of the well known power supply problem I mentioned in response 7. It's a good idea to load a program that monitors the mboard voltages and fan rpms in Windows all the time on emachines computers - there may be such a program already in your Programs somewhere - and set it to shut down the computer when any voltage gets too high (more than 10% above any nominal voltage). Is your computer and everything that connects to it that connects to AC, and your cable that connects you to the internet, plugged into something that protects it/them against power spikes and surges? If not, your video may have been damaged by a power spike or surge. I would advise you to get such a device or devices if you aren't already using one/some. E.g. a power bar with enough spaces to plug in everything connected to the computer that plugs into AC that has that protection and that also has ports for a telephone cable if you're using ADSL or DSL or dial-up or if you use a dial-up modem for faxing, and/or connectors so you can connect a coaxial cable used for a cable modem. However, if there is a lightning strike somewhere on your AC power grid, it can damage the PS or the video or anything connected to the mboard even if you do have such protection.

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