Dimension 3100 hard and graphical upgrade

I have a Dimension 3100 desktop running a Pentium 4 with 2 GB of memory. The bios says its Version A03 who is running and the Dell system is a DV051.  I want rum 7.0 Win, but the size of the hard drive (which is 80 GB) must be increased and the graphics card needs upgrade to a Direct X 9 compatible.   I tried to upgrade to version A04, but I got an error indicating that Windows has prevented the file executable desktop upgrade form.

Question: What size a the current bios SATA drive will recognize? Suggestions?  Recommendations for a graphics card?  I have a PCIe X 1 and a PCL slot still not open.  The monitor is VGA, Viewsonic VA800 LCD entry.  I want to improve until MIcrosoft give up Win XP.  The budget is very tight, otherwise I would buy a new PC. Thoughts?

tonydv

The Dimension e310/3100 can support SATA hard drives up to 2 TB in size.

Regarding the graphics card, PCI cards are usually low end.

The following PCI card has Direct 9 x.

http://www.Newegg.com/product/product.aspx?item=N82E16814130477

The following map has Direct x 11 compatibility:

http://www.Newegg.com/product/product.aspx?item=N82E16814139070

But, you may need to update the default 230w PSU on a 400w unit.

More PCI cards can be found here:

http://www.Newegg.com/product/ProductList.aspx?submit=Ene&N=40000048%20600007853&IsNodeId=1&description=PCI%20Video%20Cards&name=PCI

Bev.

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