Re configuration options

[aiw9800proman]

Hello all, long time no speak.

I have just rebooted my system after months of crashes and errors and need to make a decision on how to continue. You will see from the spec below that video is my thing ! However, either the matrox card or ati card were causing big problems and I ended up wiping both the storage drives clean. Both cards had config files on 1 or both of the drives, matrox insist on 2 scratch disks, and obviously those files / folders have been totally wiped.

So do I try to reinstall the matrox and ati software or ditch the matrox altogether and just stick with the ati ? Bearing in mind that I may be adding a monster cctv pci capture card for 16 cameras recording and playback in realtime !

Also have adobe premier pro installed on my system drive and wondering if it will crash on startup because the 2 storage drives are empty.

Hope that makes sense,

Cheers

Mick



875P neo mobo.
p4 3.06 533 mhz fsb.
1 gb ddr400.
1 80 gb maxtor sata drive (system) running xp pro on ser 1 - drive f:
2 WD 200GB EIDE drives for storage and video capture.
ATI AIW 9800 PRO AGP Graphics card.
Matrox rtx100x pci video editing card.
Geovision gv900 cctv pci capture card, not installed yet.
Soundblaster audigy.
OCZ Powerstream 520watt psu.
1 52x cd rom.
Maxtor external firewire 200 gb storage.
sony external firewire dvd rw.
viewsonic 17" lcd screen.

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