Thanks for the replies guys. Sorry I didn't write sooner.
The dual processors in the Media centre PC? I think that either a chipset for the motherboard that does processes for that or it's a media...

Well I meant that they're similar except for the graphics card as I know that the GeForce 440 is not worthy of running a program as fantastic as Maya :D.
It's good to hear about Pentiums being bad...

Lol! I didn't realise that was an icon extention. I thought they were all just ico.
No i'm not trying to use icon files as textures it's before i even try and load any texture at all! I usually use...

So you've got similar specs to me apart from the graphics and you say no problems? That's put my mind at rest that I should change that. Thanks.
I think it does need a format but not seriously. I'm...

I have:
Athlon XP 3000+
1gb Ram
Geforce MX 440
120gb HDD

And I want an update! lol. The priority obviously is my graphics card as it displays high res textures extremely strangly in the...

Ok, this is really annoying. Whenever I open the hypershade or try apply a texture to a material attribute (such as spec, bump, colour etc) I get this error:

xpm2bmp.exe has encountered a problem...