Wow-Talk about wanting to shoot myself..lol
Ok got new 500 watt psu in no problems there- unstalled omega drivers i loaded for on board chip set -Installed nividia Gforce 8600 pci exp card no problems there, installed drivers off cd it came with no problems there- problems I had were found new hardware Pci bridge and SM bus cant find drivers and now my eithernet connection not working - ok figured out nividia chipste drivers control eithernet connection on emachines(there support on phone useless)went to there web site downloaded mother board chipset drivers reloaded all working good now, questin the old chipset nividia controllers i loaded for eithernet and pci bridge should have no effect on new card performance? should it.. thanks for advice!