thank you Thomas for your reply...

Its not the first time that i have had to reload everything, so thats not a problem, have the discs to load xp home and an up grade disc for xp pro. Got a few bugs from the internet and to format my hard drive in order to get rid of them, downloaded pc spydoctor and macrovirus but unfortunately after loading everything up on it and on the reboot got an error message from the motherboard ( I presume) there is nothing i cant reinstall on this hard drive so thats not a problem any files can be copied to a 4gig USB memory stick drive.

After i buy the card will i need any other cables ? ie power and data and where and how do they connect or is it all self explanitory