Hello there,
Just received my new computer yesterday, spec can be found here - https://www.dinopc.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2395&title=new-gaming-build-project
Everything booted up fine and I had no issues at all, I then transferred some stuff from my old computer to this one via USB stick, there were only 3 items transfered (Spotify which I didn't load, Open office which I never loaded and the final item was Star wars: The old republic MMO)
This is where the trouble starts, after transferring over the game to my computer I decided to load it up and give the game a go on my new system. Before the game could ever load my computer screen went black and pretty much crashed.
I re-started the computer and constantly got an error with the monitor output. The error was along the lines of 'Cannot display this output, please revert to 1920x1080' which is what I have always used on this monitor. Multiple restarts would not change this error, not even entering the BIOS and resetting etc. This is the one thing I really do not want to come across again as its the problem and reason for this thread.
After an hour or so researching online I was told to enter safe mode to boot and change the resolution. Unfortunately with Windows 8 you cannot safe boot from the start, I was advised Shift and F8 but this did not work, so I managed to get around this by reinserting my windows disc and troubleshooting from there and putting it in safe mode, this worked and I got through to the desktop in the native 1080x760 or whatever it may be. From there I entered the advanced system setting and tried to set the computer back to normal mode so it would not boot in safe mode.
No matter what I tried it would keep booting in safe mode, eventually hours into the process at 1am I decided to just wipe the system and start from scratch the following morning, I have now reinstalled windows and all the drivers and my system seems to be working fine.
The problem I have is how do I stop this happening again, I am downloading SWTOR (the game) manually this time (10+hours of downloading) and really do not want to go through this whole ordeal again as I am sure it is not very good for the computer or me
Any recommendations or idea what happened and how to prevent this again?
Many thanks,
Alex
Just received my new computer yesterday, spec can be found here - https://www.dinopc.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2395&title=new-gaming-build-project
Everything booted up fine and I had no issues at all, I then transferred some stuff from my old computer to this one via USB stick, there were only 3 items transfered (Spotify which I didn't load, Open office which I never loaded and the final item was Star wars: The old republic MMO)
This is where the trouble starts, after transferring over the game to my computer I decided to load it up and give the game a go on my new system. Before the game could ever load my computer screen went black and pretty much crashed.
I re-started the computer and constantly got an error with the monitor output. The error was along the lines of 'Cannot display this output, please revert to 1920x1080' which is what I have always used on this monitor. Multiple restarts would not change this error, not even entering the BIOS and resetting etc. This is the one thing I really do not want to come across again as its the problem and reason for this thread.
After an hour or so researching online I was told to enter safe mode to boot and change the resolution. Unfortunately with Windows 8 you cannot safe boot from the start, I was advised Shift and F8 but this did not work, so I managed to get around this by reinserting my windows disc and troubleshooting from there and putting it in safe mode, this worked and I got through to the desktop in the native 1080x760 or whatever it may be. From there I entered the advanced system setting and tried to set the computer back to normal mode so it would not boot in safe mode.
No matter what I tried it would keep booting in safe mode, eventually hours into the process at 1am I decided to just wipe the system and start from scratch the following morning, I have now reinstalled windows and all the drivers and my system seems to be working fine.
The problem I have is how do I stop this happening again, I am downloading SWTOR (the game) manually this time (10+hours of downloading) and really do not want to go through this whole ordeal again as I am sure it is not very good for the computer or me
Any recommendations or idea what happened and how to prevent this again?
Many thanks,
Alex
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