ok guys, still not sorted!
NickM has kindly just spent the last 90mins on msn with me going through various stuff and he is now stumped!
I have still not been able to find out what Motherboard I have.....
It's listed in system as the standard device (thanks for the help microsoft!)
The details I have got from the board itself don't make it any easier, I cant see a brand name on it, the only real 'logo' I can make out looks like a mirrored (UR with the u upright making the straight back of the R if that makes sense?)followed by N232.
The only other obvious makings are "INTEL DESKTOP BOARD D845HV"
in the bios bit as suggested by Scrappy I got the following:
Bios Version HV84510A.86A.0018.P04
Processor Type Intel® Pentium ® 4
Processor Speed 2 Ghz
System Bus Speed 400 Mhz
Cache RAM 256kb
Total Memory 512Mb
Memory Bank 0 256 (PC133)
Memory Bank 1 128 (PC133)
Memory Bank 2 128 (PC133)
Language [English]
There's something I have noticed, every now and then a blue colour flicker happens, just the tint of the screen.....
Also sometimes the monitor goes black for a split second once in a while as if the monitor turns off and back on, though it defo doesnt!
Could this be a sign that the Graphics Card is on the way out?
I have checked everything is intalled correctly and working, all fine.
Nick talked me through running the dxdiag and checking everything there and running the tests and all fine there also.
It's got to the point where I am starting to think that the easiest thing will be ti replace the graphics card, but this wont be poss for a while so any help would be appreciated or I might not be racing this season (new house has to come first )