I think that my video card instantly fried on me, no warning whatsoever, no artifacts or anything. When I turned off my monitor everything was okay but when I turned it back on half an hour later my resolution had gone from 1024X768 to 640X480 without me doing anything to the resolution...
OMG, I just read your post after taking 5 minutes to do mine, sorry about that. I see what you are saying, your saying that the F8 button may not be effective on my PS2 keyboard right?
sorry i'll try to describe it better here is the link. In the picture you'll see the mouse and the keyboard and another component, well that other component is the infared thing that the keyboard and mouse get the signal from (like a remote control to a VCR) that "infared thing" has 1 cord...
I'm not using the wireless keyboard/mouse on the computer I am having problems with but I had originally installed them on that computer. How does this help my situation though?
wait a minute, the computer i'm on right now has a wireless keyboard and mouse. The censor that the mouse and keyboard get the signal from has one cord that splits into 2 cords which go into the mouse and keyboard port and the cord that goes into the keyboard port is USB.
I do tap F8 right before the POST screen disappears and have tried tapping it right up into the windows load screen and I didn't get the safemode menu. Do you think my videocard is fried?
I didn't get a menu, I pressed F8 in the right sequence (as the post screen flashes before the windows load up screen). And yes I want to take my HDD out of the computer I am having problems with and put it into the computer that is operational (the computer I am on right now) to scan for...
I guess I better get someone else to do this for me, I have hundreds of pictures of my little girl on my HDD. I want to install the secondary HDD to scan for viruses because my other computer is fucked up(possibly just the videocard) but since my other computer gives me a blank screen after the...
Can you install a SATA HDD as a secondary HDD while the primary HDD is an IDE HDD? Do IDE HDD's have a ribbon style wire while the sata has a smaller wire like appearance? And if so I guess that might mean that certain motherboards would have on or the other ports for HDD installation? One...
I was able to before this all happened, I can access BIOS but tried default setting and it didn't do anything. Fuck, I hope my windows isn't fucked up.