Methinks you'll have to disable the onboard graphics in the BIOS, or is that what you meant ? ============= If you drink, don't drive. Don't even putt. Dean Martin _____ From: computertalkshop-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:computertalkshop-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Tina Sent: Sunday, January 22, 2006 11:52 AM To: computertalkshop@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [CTS] Re: Task bar help... ROFLMAO! I was really tempted to do that at one point!! I finally figured out the problem... sorta. In the device manager it was showing the new video card and the old onboard graphics stuff. I disabled the old one, rebooted, and the task bar was there. The old one now has a red X next to it.. but I'm not gonna stress over that right now. Tyler is reinstalling his game, we'll see what happens from there. What a PITA it's been and this all started *before* I had my first cuppa coffee in me this morning. Maybe that was the problem.. do nothing until first pot is consumed! Thanks for the link, couldn't find what I needed there, but I'm keeping the link to the main site for future reference. Tee :) ----- Original Message ----- From: Cuffy <mailto:cuffy10@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: computertalkshop@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Sunday, January 22, 2006 1:31 PM Subject: [CTS] Re: Task bar help... Might I suggest ........ "FDISK" ? ====================== _____ From: computertalkshop-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:computertalkshop-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Tina Sent: Sunday, January 22, 2006 10:59 AM To: computertalkshop@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [CTS] Task bar help... Got a problem with a fairly new computer. Got it last Christmas for hubby, but it's barely been used. Tyler wanted to install Flight Simulator 3 and the install went well but said video card wasn't compatible. It was onboard video and sound. So I put a new video card (NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 420) and sound card in it, and over-rode the onboard for those devices. All worked fine. Everything picked up nicely and shows in the device manager as working correctly. Next, the game came up and the first error message was gone and replaced with, "CFS3 Configuration Override file outdated", so I bounced over here to my computer (only computer that has internet connection) went to Google and got to this site http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;331562 followed that to here, http://www.microsoft.com/games/combatfs3/downloads.asp downloaded the new direct x.. etc., put it on disk, but before I put it on the other computer I noticed that the task bar wasn't coming up (on other computer). Can't activate it with the mouse or with the windows key. Rebooted. Nada. Uninstalled CS3. Rebooted. Nada.. no task bar. I was able to get to the properties and it shows that the taskbar *should* be showing. But.. it's not. Any idea? I have uninstalled the game and I have not put the updated stuff that I got from the above site (and put on disk) on to the computer yet. Below is the specs on the computer I'm having problems with. (Please no slams as to the brand, or the CPU unless it's pertinent to the problem. It's a computer that is used by someone [or not used as the case may be] that doesn't know much about computers, nor does he need a high end computer.) TIA, Tee Windows XP Home SP 1 Compaq Presario Celeron CPU 2.53 GHz 248 MB Ram