Mac to PC

I have had a MacBook for years that stopped working well about a year ago. Luckily, I had been regularly backing everything up on an external hard drive and had a work computer that I continued to use instead. My MacBook has just been sitting around unused for about a year. I would like to now...

I have: msi z77a-g41 intel xeon e-1225 coolmaster 700w evga gtx 460 windows 8 the problem is the monitor has signal while the card is on lower resolution, and it randomly decided to jump to 1980x1080 resolution, and causing the disconnect with the monitor. And I tried booting windows into...