Recent content by laurence

I have done a clean install of windows 8 on a brand new computer that I built. The new computer does not have a vga output for my old lcd screen, so I used a dvi to vga adaptor. The installation went fine. However the image quality on the screen is very bad, diagonal wavy lines. So I bought...

Are you referring to the chipset fault? I've heard plenty about that, and it does not concern me a great deal - the ASUS board I'll be getting for it has 6 SATA ports, only 3 if which I will use, so I should be good, if I get a faulty one at all. I have done a large amount of research on this...

Hey guys, I just thought I'd report back and let you know that I've finally got it sorted :D. I went into my parallel winXP instillation, and while deleting a file it reported that the recycle bin on my Win7 hard drive was corrupted. I thought I'd investigate a bit further, and deleted the...

Nope, nothing works - I tried all the keyboard shortcuts I know, and I've been using it for almost a year now, so any activation problems should already have shown up. As for video resolution, the mouse cursor displays fine, and my friend's lending me a spare video card in case it's a problem...

Hey guys, I've tried using startup repair 4 times (restarts in between, winxp HDD disconnected, partition set to active) and still nothing. From what I can see, it gets past the 'startup' phases as such (windows7 logo), but that still leaves me at a loss as for what to try. Saltgrass, my copy...

Thanks for the reply! I've already done one run-through of that, not knowing 3 are more effective. I'll give that a go tomorrow and let you know how it goes :)

Hi everyone, first time post here so bear with me :) When I boot up my computer, it displays the animated windows7 logo as normal, but where it would normally display the login screen all I get is a blank screen with the mouse cursor. I've tried all keyboard shortcuts and random clicks to no...