Recent content by birdwax

Are you allowing the GPU to scale in both cases? I just installed a 8800GS on a 780G mobo, and the only obvious difference I noticed is that default brightness of the nvidia is much higher.

For a few years at least, the nvidia control panel has had an option that you could select to enable video playback in full screen on a second monitor. I just installed an 8800GS on my computer and hooked it up to an old CRT TV via s-video, and unfortunately, I can't find the full screen video...

Sorry, that's a typo: it's actually 2.2A.

I just bought a Foxconn 780G motherboard assuming that I'd need to buy a new power supply to use it. So I was surprised when I read in the manual that the motherboard will accept a 20 pin plug if it's aligned correctly. However, my power supply isn't even a ATX12v 2.0 model - it's a 1.2 bought...

They do. I am pretty convinced that the failure occurs before the drives can be accessed. So it may be less a "can't boot from CD / hard drive" situation than a "computer poops out after the BIOS screen" situation.

It's just the motherboard (Biostar TF7050-M2) and the CPU (X2 4800+). The RAM, hard drives, and optical drives can't be the problem unless they're all faulty. (And they worked on the other 7050 I have.) I also tried removing all the headers on the motherboard. Nothing works, and at this...

Well, neither SATA nor IDE works, and I did try another IDE cable with the same result. Three IDE drives and two SATA drives all failed to boot that worked with the other TF7050 I have (same model). So unless the IDE and SATA channels are both dead - unlikely - the problem is something else...

Can boot and get to the BIOS, but not beyond it. Unable to boot from CD or HD. I am a fairly advanced user as far as hardware is concerned. I've been building computers since the days of Computer Shopper, so I can manage most problems. But this new build has me stumped. The computer...