well its sunding pretty good im just about to run maxblast that came with it and then install windows

so windows is giveing me 3 choices and the little booklet that came with the harddrive is confusing me so the 3 choices:

Format the partition using the NTFS file system (Quick)
Format the partition using the NTFS file system
Leave the current file system intact (no changes)

im confused by the last one ive just run power max and now im formatting windows should i go with the middle one?

yes

cool im formatting it now and ill tell you how it goes but im really happy that im not hearing a clicking sound

well ive gotten windows set up and all and im installing my drives and im trying to install my graphics card and i got this message that says something like softwear not compatible with windows logo

whats tha mean?

its a RADEON 9800 PRO (Microsoft Corporation) [Display adapter]

Basically the software has not be subjected to or approved by Microsoft.

http://www.microsoft.com/winlogo/sof...gcriteria.mspx

And you are installing ATI software? Does it let you ignore the warning?

yea im installing ATI softwear and it does have an option to ignore the marning the only thing is ive installed the graphics card before and have never gotten this message

I would ignore it. Have you installed any service pack yet? That might be the issue. It might be looking for SP1 or 2.

no i havent thats just in windows updates right?

It should be.