Recent content by spikey1973

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    gigabyte "loading operating system" hangs

    i've used this SSD with xp before on a different mainboard, had no problems there. but i also tried an normal sata had, which had no problems booting (it did but that was a windows installation problem, it did get well passed the loading operating system) so i stick to my initial thought that...
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    gigabyte "loading operating system" hangs

    ithe will read throught this as it sounds very informative, but on my old board (even older) i used this drive to. also with xp and had no issues at all. as mentioned, it seems to be an gigabyte problem rather than the drive. althought, i have thought about a sata problem, i will test this...
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    gigabyte "loading operating system" hangs

    Hey, well i've just received my 'new' refurbished gigabyte GA-H55M-D2H moatherboard. I've plugged in a 1 GB DDR3 memory and a i3-550 cpu. additionally i have a samsung 120GB SDD drive and temporarily a DVD drive with an original windows XP CD to reinstall windows. ofcourse it wouldn't boot...
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    connecting screen without onboard vga options

    Thank you for your information, indeed you are right, my terminology is a bit of... but simply speaking i allready understood what you told me, but just used the wrong terms. Problem I have that I have this IGP instead of a APU which leads me to install a physical extra card for this GPU...
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    connecting screen without onboard vga options

    Hey, i've got a very, very blond question. but i'm gonna ask it anyway as i might just be missing some important detail. I've recently bought a MSI-P55-CD53 mainboard is shipping over), and have a i3 550 CPU waiting for it. but only tonight i figured out that my (all P55 mainboards?)...
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    PCI --> mini PCIe (Sound card)

    I have the same question, except for a pcie -> mini pcie. have you tried it out yet? i'm really curious if that is gonna work (i'm going to add a DAC pcie card to an opened-up laptop, basically just mainboard and everything else is stripped out, physically and or bios wise, but i need this...