Recent content by LiamJames

So I finally built my computer and got it to boot successfully, there's just one problem. The case that I bought only had one stand off which hardly screwed in and fell out regardless... I'm pretty worried that I will fry my motherboard somehow due to this. My mobo however is sitting nice and...

I've tried both, there is no output at all, ill try taking out the gpu and trying to get it to work, how would you disable onboard? I think my mobos default display is the gpu by the way.

They're all brand new, i've used vga and dvi-d on both the gpu and onboard, the computer boots, two short beeps but everything is running such as it indicates the main bios is running, the motherboard is a gigabyte z87-ud4h if that helps it even reads from the optical disk drive

Hey all, I cant seem to get my new computer to display anything on the screen, checked everything such as RAM, different graphics card, on board display, what could it be? Starting to lose hope...

One last thing, will I need deactivate my old key?

Cheers, might make the plunge and get a new HDD, going to download that iso and use that. Also, yeah i'm using a new mobo too.

I'm currently going to build a new computer and when I heard that using your old HDD to boot is more hassle than its worth, I was wondering how would I boot it up without the disk when I get a new HDD? I have the Windows 7 key but will I run into any problems? I'm thinking of getting a new HDD...

HP Pavilion 15 but i'm not 100% sure what the model number is This one : http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/1386307.htm

Nope, not even an external piece of hardware, safe mode doesn't work.

Would, but I cannot get any functionality out of the keyboard/mouse

I was just browsing the internet today when my laptop froze in google chrome and i got the error DPC_WATCHDOG_VIOLATION error, after this, my laptop refused to start up so I let it cool down for a couple of hours. I finally got it to boot up after a restore but the BSOD problem keeps returning...

Not cordless, sometimes the connection works perfectly and sometimes it doesn't, even when i'm in the same place.

I keep losing connection when using my wireless driver which is Realtek RTL8188EE 802.11bgn at random times, but when I use an ethernet cable the connection is perfect. What is wrong with my driver?