- Mar 12, 2013
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Back around Christmas time, my friend was thinking about getting a new computer. I said I'd help him out, and I did by picking out some parts on Aria Technology. Since he didn't have a huge budget to play about with, I decided to go with the following parts:
https://www.aria.co.uk/WishList/bSYD1-ZdK9j5jRECSpuXmw,,
This left him with about another £30 to spare so I said he could have my old GTX560 for that. This was the only part that wasn't brand new and had been pre-owned (by me). I purchased this the previous Christmas, so it was a year old.
When I look over the parts.
They seem to look like they should all be properly compatible but I'm 15 and have only been properly into computers since November 2011, so I can't really say I'm the most experienced person with computer hardware, but I know a thing or two, so don't take me for someone that isn't going to understand what you're talking about if you get technical. I have previously built my mum's computer, and had done a bit of upgrading on my own before I built his.
Now here's the problem, my friend has had this PC build for almost 5 months now, (since Christmas as I mentioned) and since he got it, he hasn't been able to go into fullscreen mode with anything (The only exceptions being YouTube, anime websites and ARMA II). So when I first got the computer up and running for him, one of my friends on Skype was generous enough to send me a code copy of Borderlands 2 to celebrate him getting a gaming computer, to install on his system. When the game finished downloading, I started it up and it ran, but got a surprisingly low frame rate. Probably about 10-15 FPS (Now I assume that it must have been the Intel HD 2500 graphics at work.) I fiddled around inside the case a little and when I turned the computer back on and ran Borderlands 2, it came up with the monitor saying "No-signal". I fiddled around with the DVI cable a bit and then restarted the computer because nothing was happening. I did this a few times and it came back on. I then downloaded the latest drivers at the time for the card from the Nvidia website and tried to update the drivers. It got a little way through updating it and the monitor no-signalled, so I restarted it again a few times and the drivers hadn't installed correctly. I tried a few things, including taking the graphics card out and putting it back in again. Doing a clean update with the drivers and even leaving it for about 10 minutes after it no-signalled in the driver updating progress. The drivers never updated properly.
The fullscreen problem seems to be with most games apart from ARMA II. At the time he didn't have access to many games so he tried running RuneScape in fullscreen, and also MapleStory. These also made his monitor no-signal.
I told him to consider buying a new graphics card. He said he was going to when it came round to his birthday in May. It's getting closer to his birthday now and his mum is now saying that she doesn't want to be buying him a new graphics card (GTX660) for his birthday when the problem still isn't fixed yet.
Personally, I don't think that it would be a problem with the graphics card as about a few weeks before I installed it into his system, I had it running fine with my system, but I might be wrong. I hope I am not since if he gets a new graphics card, I said I would buy the GTX560 back off him for £30 if it worked as I was hoping to use it in a 2nd computer build that I would put together this Christmas.
TL;DR - I'm sorry I can't really sum it up short, and I know it's a long post, but I just wanted to be as informative as possible.
If you have any ideas or suggestions on what to do, please reply with anything of relevance.
https://www.aria.co.uk/WishList/bSYD1-ZdK9j5jRECSpuXmw,,
This left him with about another £30 to spare so I said he could have my old GTX560 for that. This was the only part that wasn't brand new and had been pre-owned (by me). I purchased this the previous Christmas, so it was a year old.
When I look over the parts.
They seem to look like they should all be properly compatible but I'm 15 and have only been properly into computers since November 2011, so I can't really say I'm the most experienced person with computer hardware, but I know a thing or two, so don't take me for someone that isn't going to understand what you're talking about if you get technical. I have previously built my mum's computer, and had done a bit of upgrading on my own before I built his.
Now here's the problem, my friend has had this PC build for almost 5 months now, (since Christmas as I mentioned) and since he got it, he hasn't been able to go into fullscreen mode with anything (The only exceptions being YouTube, anime websites and ARMA II). So when I first got the computer up and running for him, one of my friends on Skype was generous enough to send me a code copy of Borderlands 2 to celebrate him getting a gaming computer, to install on his system. When the game finished downloading, I started it up and it ran, but got a surprisingly low frame rate. Probably about 10-15 FPS (Now I assume that it must have been the Intel HD 2500 graphics at work.) I fiddled around inside the case a little and when I turned the computer back on and ran Borderlands 2, it came up with the monitor saying "No-signal". I fiddled around with the DVI cable a bit and then restarted the computer because nothing was happening. I did this a few times and it came back on. I then downloaded the latest drivers at the time for the card from the Nvidia website and tried to update the drivers. It got a little way through updating it and the monitor no-signalled, so I restarted it again a few times and the drivers hadn't installed correctly. I tried a few things, including taking the graphics card out and putting it back in again. Doing a clean update with the drivers and even leaving it for about 10 minutes after it no-signalled in the driver updating progress. The drivers never updated properly.
The fullscreen problem seems to be with most games apart from ARMA II. At the time he didn't have access to many games so he tried running RuneScape in fullscreen, and also MapleStory. These also made his monitor no-signal.
I told him to consider buying a new graphics card. He said he was going to when it came round to his birthday in May. It's getting closer to his birthday now and his mum is now saying that she doesn't want to be buying him a new graphics card (GTX660) for his birthday when the problem still isn't fixed yet.
Personally, I don't think that it would be a problem with the graphics card as about a few weeks before I installed it into his system, I had it running fine with my system, but I might be wrong. I hope I am not since if he gets a new graphics card, I said I would buy the GTX560 back off him for £30 if it worked as I was hoping to use it in a 2nd computer build that I would put together this Christmas.
TL;DR - I'm sorry I can't really sum it up short, and I know it's a long post, but I just wanted to be as informative as possible.
If you have any ideas or suggestions on what to do, please reply with anything of relevance.
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