Faizan

Thanks for your help and here is what i found, or rather what i didn't find. I did not find anything that looked like PCI E or anything to indicate that my PCI E slot was disabled. The only other thing i found was a function called PCI PME under my power settings. but i doubt that this is what I was looking for. I went back to my provider website and I updated my BIOS because i thought that I might not have the latest version, but it turns out that i did. I do not know if there is another update available, and if there is i wouldn't know where to get it. One other thing that you should know, My computer came with Windows XP home edition, but a few years ago I changed it to XP professional. Could this possibly have any correlation with the BIOS problem? Do you have any other suggestions on what it could be?

P.S I really appreciate all the help. Thank you for taking the time out to help me.