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I believe there was some glitch where you could get rid of the HUD by forcing 8x Anti Aliasing on ATI cards (Don't remember if it still works and if it's only for ATI cards or not though).
EDIT: Forcing 8x AA with Catalyst Control Center made the HUD disappear for me.

You could try installing the driver's from AMD's site instead of the one's from the CD, I doubt that's the problem though. Other than that I'm afraid something's broken, as a clean windows install + right drivers can't cause any problems. The PSU should be enough for the computer.

samourai23, on 18 November 2011 - 10:48 AM, said:

1) Get quickBMS here
2) Get this quickBMS script (right click -> save as)
3) Start quickBMS
4) Select the bms script you downloaded in step 2
5) Select the cpk file you want to extract
6) Select the output folder and press save
7) Wait until it's finished, and you'll have your unpacked bb(2/3).cpk

Since you're willing to spend $100-220 I'm just selecting combo's/making combo's from $100-220 (depending on what you want to spend);

$115: AMD Athlon II X2 260 (3.2GHz) + GIGABYTE GA-M68MT-S2P

Comparison (I selected the AMD Athlon II X2 265 instead of 260 because I couldn't select the 260, the 260 is a little bit slower than the 265). Difference: About the same in single threaded programs, the X3 wins in multithreaded programs (because it has an extra core). Recording, capturing etc. usually is multithreaded, so you'll benefit from having the X3.

$140: AMD Athlon II X3 455 (3.3GHz) + MSI 760GM-E51

Comparison. Difference: The Phenom II X4 is faster with everything. It's (a bit) better in single threaded applications and much better in multithreaded applications.

$175: AMD Phenom II X4 955 (3.2GHz) + GIGABYTE GA-M68MT-S2P

Comparison. Difference: The Phenom II X6 beats the X4 in pretty much everything. They are about as good in singlethreaded applications (despite the fact the X4 is clocked at 3.2GHz and the X6 at 3.0GHz), the X6 (obviously) beats it in multithreaded applications.

$215: AMD Phenom II X6 1075T (3.0GHz) + GIGABYTE GA-M68MT-S2P

Comparison. The i5 is the first Intel CPU I'm recommending (and it's the most expensive one, it goes a little over your budget), mainly because intel is just more expensive. I'm recommending it however since (IMO) it's a great CPU. In the comparison I included the i5 2400 instead of the i5 2300 because I couldn't select the i5 2300, so the i5 2300's slightly slower than the one shown in the comparison (not much though). In single threaded applications the i5 2300 (2400 in this case) beats the Phenom II X6 by far, multithreaded it usually beats the X6 (despite the fact the i5 2400's clocked lower (2.8GHz instead of 3.0GHz) and has less cores (4 instead of 6) it usually beats the X6 in multithreaded applications, sometimes it loses though, see comparison).

$235: Intel Core i5 2300 (2.8GHz) + GIGABYTE GA-H61M-DS2

These might not be the best combo's, so don't buy one directly, I suppose you'd better wait for other's opinions too. Just my 2 cents.

I had the exact same thing like a month ago. It did not give any beep signals, any signal to my monitor, everything seemed to work. I took out the motherboard battery for a minute, put it back it (this resets the bios), and it worked again. I don't know if you tried it already and I doubt it'll fix it, but it's worth a try.