Legit Reviews

Alright, well I have to say cheers to all of you for the help - so far I have run checks on a bunch of things, and all seems to be fine, I can run higher settings on games and I have restarted windows a couple of times just to be sure, and everything seems to be steady and holding. Just goes to prov...

Alright I will keep those in mind. Here's what I just did that actually seems to have worked (I'm not holding my breath yet though). I found and used the Omega Drivers (just to try something different), and once I was in windows with the nice ol' black screen I unplugged the White cable (which is DV...

Having Nvidia drivers and ATI drivers on the same machine will only be making things worse, which is why I suggested originally to clean out everything with the driver cleaner program originally. Now you said that you had two cables from the card to the monitor earlier. If you had this the whole ti...

Alright I may give that a shot - I just did a quick switch back to the new hardware (bigger Power supply and the radeon X800). Currently everything looks good (resolution is fine, 1024 by 768, 32 colors) but I cannot run the Catalyst control center - I got the initial warning message about needing t...

Awesome, in my continued luck with computers, the forums here decided to eat my whole message, save for the quote. Do you have the monitor plugged in as DVI or VGA , I had the same problem with the monitor plugged in with DVI plugged it in VGA everything worked perfect but it was on a 4850 card but ...

hmm, interesting, but I doubt I'll be able to find a new monitor (don't really have the $ lying around to do it) - it does make some sense though since right after the black windows load screen the monitor goes black and the light in the bottom right goes orange (instead of green - Dell flatscreen m...

Followed the directions and ended up with the same result - I gave the Computer 3 restarts (hard/manual shutdown/restarts - was my only real choice) and waited until the hard drive finished mucking about (I'm going purely on sound here as I couldn't see anything). On go-round #4 I went into safe mod...

Alright, yesterday I installed a new power supply (Silencer 410 Dell-2) in my Dell Dimension 8300 as well as a Radeon X800 Pro. Everything went fine, booted and got into windows, but noticed I needed to change some settings and/or get the drivers - only problem is, when I do that and reboot (or chan...