Recent content by Rival Son

Recently My PC keeps booting to back screen with just mouse.. other times I am getting the "BOOTMGR is missing" error. After a couple of reboots it booted in to windows.. So now.. Is there a way to repair bootmgr issue WITHOUT a disc drive? I don't have one just now, but I have ordered one...

So I've had a few BSODs from time to time.. Never thought much of it, then I had another and decided to look into it since the PC is less than a year old. http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/VfkhdC Full system build (current) From PCpartpicker, I did notice this before buying, but after a little...

An update on what I finally went with. The SSD, 2nd hard drive and Monitor were bought about a month or so after I made the original build, mostly due to the old drive being really slow. The H80 was from a good friend who had upgraded his cooling and was happy to sell it to me pretty cheap, and...

When I did some research, I found some people had problems where their system wouldn't boot as Windows had appeared to place/use boot files from the HDD. Just wanting to avoid problems by doing it through msconfig? Thanks for your reply. Rival

So I installed Windows 7 onto an old External Drive HDD Which contained a WD Green 2Tb (Slow, I know but a temporary solution) internal drive by removing it from its casing and making sure it was partitioned and installed onto the new partition. I got fed up with how slow the drive was pretty...

Im looking to do a similar build myself, but slightly more gaming oriented at the moment. I was just wondering if theres a reason for your preference of Intel CPU? Also to the other replies, is there a reason to go NVIDIA over AMD? Thanks!

(Sorry, It's quite long) Okay, so I'm new to PC gaming. I have a fair bit of background knowledge and I'm currently swimming through the oceans of forums, articles and flame wars about who/what is best for what. I'm looking to build a pretty good system, but over a long period (around a year/...