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Good luck! Tech guys at work are always a great tool for people. I work as a helpdesk technician at a compnay and we have people come up to us all the time with questions about their personal computers. While we're not going to fix ur personal computer on company time, most of us would be...

Build it yourself! haha but seriously, you should. It gives you a great sense of accomplishment and if you follow directions, it's really not hard. Either way, you got a good system there that im sure you'll enjoy no matter who builds it. Good luck!

That whole read error thing sheds alot of light on the situation. I suspect the hard drive as well but nothing can be done until you actually test the drive. I recommend Ultimate boot cd as well. It has most manufacturer's utilities already on the cd and it is free. Run some tests on your...

It really depends on what you're going to be running on that system. Most newer games and graphically intense software benefit greatly from having two cards but for general computing and older games and software one card would be a far better choice in my opinion.

Since you are running a valid copy of windows, i wont look in that direction anymore. When you say the bar at the bottom of the screen disappears it almost sounds like the explorer.exe process is being killed. Possibly by a virus or malware? Next time the bar disappears do the "Three finger...

Are you sure you're running a valid copy of windows? I've seen machines with illegal copies of windows exhibit such behavior due to the WGA program Microsoft started a while back. Do you ever get popups telling you your software isn't genuine? One pc would have a black box up in he corner...

Also, verify your display drivers are properly installed or you probably wont even be able to set it to uit's native resolution.

You mentioned that you connected the laptop to another monitor and it still didn't work, however on some laptops the vga output doesnt always just come on when you plug in a monitor. On newer hp laptops, you hold down the fn button and press F4 to cycle through the different display modes...