Recent content by scallanan

Hi, I recently got a new hard drive and reinstalled a clean copy of windows 8.1 onto it. In my previous installation I had no problems setting my resolution to 1366x768 but for some reason I can't seem to get that resolution anymore. I have updated my Intel G33/G31 chipset drivers but the...

I don't understand much about graphics drivers, but I know that I have 3 driver versions for my adapter installed on my PC (one of which I downloaded myself). Out of the three, only one of them works for programs such as Sony Vegas or Minecraft. The other two produce errors. I can update my...

When I go to: Device Manager > Display Adapters ..the default driver being used is called 'Intel G33/G31 Express Chipset Family (Microsoft Corporation - WDDM 1.0)' When I try to run certain software/games (i.e Sony Vegas; Minecraft) with this driver version, I get errors. So I follow these...

My laptop: Fujitsu Siemens AMILO Li 2735 Cable: http://www.ebay.ie/itm/For-PC-Netbook-Laptop-LCD-HDTV-VGA-To-HDMI-Video-Cable-/111074165804?pt=UK_Camera_Cables_Adapters&hash=item19dc89442c All I'm looking for is to display my laptop screen on my TV. I have VGA output on laptop, and only HDMI...

I figured out how to fix this. For those who have the same problem in the future, follow these steps: 1) Go to the intel or amd website (not microsoft) 2) Find the correct driver for your graphics accelerator 3) If there is no windows 8 drivers for it, download the win7 or vista driver 4)...

I am trying to run the game minecraft on my Dell Optiplex 330 machine. I used to be able to run the older 1.6.4Beta version about 18 months ago without any problems. Since then I've increased my RAM and installed windows 8.1 (previously it was winXP). I tried launching the newest version of...

I'm trying to connect two PCs (one with win7 and one with win8) to a homegroup to allow file sharing between the two. So I set up a homegroup with the win7 machine, changed the password to the one I desired, and went on to the win8 PC. I tried to connect to the homegroup I had set up which...

I recently bought 2 new seagate ST2000NM0011 hard drives, but I can't get either one to work on my machine. They have a SATA6 interface, but I found that they are compatible with SATA2 interfaces, so I bought them. I am running windows 7 on a Dell Optiplex 330. When I plug in one of these hard...