Recent content by meangreen

Does this come with a Vista disc so it can be reformated without all the crapware on it?

I don't have a whole lot of time to game and I don't need ultra high settings, so I went budget with my recent build with a E2160 and ECS650iSLIT-A, and 2 gigs of Crucial Ballistix DDR-800 and a Cooler Master RR-PCH-S9U1-GP Hyper TX CPU fan. I'm not looking to set any records OCing, just get it...

No PCI video card, and I really don't feel like spending any more money on this thing. Is there any other way I can check this out? Too bad my mobo doesn't have onboard video.

Update. I removed the CPU and reinstalled it and the heatsink and the computer started up. Figuring I solved the problem I installed all my drivers and when I changed the resolution I lost signal to the monitor. That sealed the deal of me thinking that my video card was to blame for all my...

my components mobo: EVGA 122-CK-NF66-T1 LGA 775 NVIDIA nForce 650i Ultra ATX Intel Motherboard CPU: Intel Dual-Core E2160 Allendale 1.8GHz LGA 775 Processor Model BX80557E2160 vid card: EVGA 256-P2-N751-TR GeForce 8600GT 256MB GDDR3 PCI Express x16 Video Card HD: Seagate Barracuda...

I reset the BIOS originally when there was no signal to the monitor and then again after everything seemed to be going fine. I barely installed Windows and just installed the video card drivers when the signal to the monitor was cut again, so there has been no overclocking and I haven't had a...

I unplugged everything but the memory and video card and it started up. So I plugged in everything else and got Windows installed and thought everything was fine, until I installed the drivers for my video card(evga 8600gt) and then the screen went black again with no signal to the monitor. Now...

Tried this and it is still doing the same thing... any other ideas?

I just finished building a new computer and powered it on for the first time and it came up with the message that there had been a change to the CPU or BIOS and needed to be hard booted(can't remember the exact message). I did just that and now nothing comes up at all, as there is no signal to...