Well, not to plug a product, but you really should have bought a Sound Blaster soundcard, cheap no-name cards can be a nightmare waiting to happen.

On BIOS setup, when you first boot your machine,...

I've sold other Fujitsu items with no problems in the past, I would think it'd serve you well enough.

It's a reputable company, a maker of memory chips, hard disks, and lots of other things, that...

I'll take a stab in the dark here, I sort of doubt it came with Windows XP. It is probably a S-video connector to hook to a TV-Out port on your video card so you can hook your PC to a TV screen, but...

There's a little plastic piece on that printer that is at the printer end of the paper tray, if you look carefully with a flashlight, you can see how the thing works.

Either that little plastic...

No problem. Rock on! ;)

Head to Creative's website, and download the newest drivers for your card.

http://us.creative.com/support/downloads/

Install the latest drivers for your card and reboot, should fix you up quite...

That CPU temp is fine, I doubt that is your problem.

Do you have up to date Antivirus protection? Have you checked your system for virii, or spyware recently? Some virii lately will make your...

I think you're moving along nicely then, and I hope you solve the problem without much further effort. :)

That said, one thing I must ask, you said you put in some DDR ram? The motherboard in that...

Never heard of them. I usually buy from the following:

http://www.buyxg.com/
(Where I go for my Xtreme gaming needs lol)

http://www.emicrox.com
(Good for the basics)

If I'm understanding correctly then, you cannot get any video on your screen at all, at any time, with or without memory in the machine?

You could be right about it being a bad memory module, but...

Hmm, when was it last working, and what were you doing with it last?

Tell us about your machine, what CPU? OS?

You get no video whatsoever? You can't see the power on self test when you have...

If that's a bios password, you can reset it by clearing the bios, (however it being a laptop, you might find it a real chore to find the jumper for clearing the bios).

Try giving a shout to IBM...

Catweazle's right, as usual. I run a 600 watt Pioneer Home Theater system connected to my SB Live, with the optional Digital IO daughtercard. PC games, so far, seem to use Prologic, and for Prologic,...