Recent content by Slatey

Had also installed a larger power supply than required, card worked well for five months. The old card I put back in is too slow for her latest game, even the rendering in Sims is a bit retarded. Now MSI and the card's retailer are telling me to contact the other to obtain warranty assistance!

Found it, plus a DVI outlet, under little black covers with "Do Not Remove" on them, and no indication of what was under them. Hooked up to that, worked OK, re-installed the nvidia driver, but still nothing when I went back to the graphics card. Replaced the card with the previous one, that...

HP HP specs tell me the MOBO does have on board video, however there is no outlet for it, so even if I remove the video card to try to confirm it as the suspect, I still will not get a screen. The only video connections are on the card. Problems started when I got error messages stating that...

Have done that a few times this morning whilst trying to get keys to work, but no go. Makes all the normal start-up noises and light sequences, seems to settle into run mode ok, just no screen. To USSNORWAY, have tried another monitor - no difference. Unit is an HP Pavilion P6-2413a desktop...

The Nvidia video driver on my daughter's computer is continually getting corrupted in W8.1. Have re-installed it twice, but each time it only lasted a week. Now there is no screen at all. The supposed failover that Microsoft has developed to access UEFI [now that key strokes at boot are...

Reversing the reg fix will only put me back where I was, with Microsoft constantly downloading rubbish, and using maybe 20% of my quota. However, the article had posts from people who had used the fix, but were now having problems with programs that use the internet. I have also just confirmed...

Thanks for the reply. Spent a lot more time checking on the net generally, but the search terms 'stop W10 Home auto downloads' found nothing initially. However I eventually tracked down a registry fix [things that usually scare me to death], from tenforums, which can set an ethernet connection...

This has been raised by others previously, but not been mentioned for a while. All solutions to the W10 Home update auto downloads problem suggest that enabling the Wi-Fi 'metered connection' button will stop this. This is fine if your connection is wi-fi. Most of the IT world considers...