Tahsin8080

Okay so I tried reinstalling windows; I tried windows 10. I had a bootable pen drive and I had installed windows before so i kinda knew what i was doing: went to bios changed the boot order to removable flash drive first and then restarted. when it booted to my pen drive, the whole screen went black and instead of the 'windows installation' dialogue that pops up there was a small dash/line blinking on the top left corner.... Edit: tried DDU but didn't work, still shows 'detection driver error contact and for assistance'

Not much but a Pentium 4 with an unknown motherboard and a GeForce2 MX 400,I remember that we upgraded the ram from 128mb to 512 as that was the latest and fastest ram back in the day (at least where I live). Works completely fine btw, runs windows XP and i occasionally play Virtua Cop on it

Got a handover pc from my brother- I3 530, 2gb ddr3, amd radeon 5450, 1tb hdd, The hdd already had win7 (32bit) installed so i didn't try installing anything else. But he gave it to me disassembled so after i built it, it only got to the win7 logo, after that the screen becomes black and nothing happens, I can run it in safe mode though without any problems also i can connect to the motherboards VGA and run it normally. Only when i use the gpu it doesn't post... tried installing latest drivers but it says 'Detection driver error' while running the amd software... any help will be much appreciated

Oh found them sorry its a 512 mb not 128

I have a pentium 4 (year 2000 version one) and a 128mb ddr cl3 ram. Too lazy to find those out of the garage and take a picture of 'em.....

no I did not... I was afraid if I did that I could not revert back as the second screen (one with no display- monitor) would be my permanent screen then and disable me from going back to the laptop screen.

no I did not... I was afraid if I did that I could not revert back as the second screen (one with no display- monitor) would be my permanent screen then and disabling me form going back to the laptop screen.

Hi I'm a new member of both the tech industry and linus media group forum, so please go easy on me if I sound like a stupid... so I recently had an idea of connecting my laptop (compaq 510) with a second monitor just for some gamer/twitch streamer feeling... so I connected a old philips (most probably 720p) monitor to my laptop. I went to the screen resolution settings and viewed the second screen ( monitor) only. so my laptop had no visual. Then I went to the advanced option and changed the refresh rate to 120 hertz (my laptop screen only had one option:60). Instantly the monitor turned black and a box appeared that said "cannot display video. please change input to 1366by768 @60" (The second monitor does not even have the 1366by768 option). I tried to change the resolution of the second screen (monitor) from the main, laptop screen but doesn't work. I can extend the window to the second screen (monitor). I can duplicate it, I can choose the option "show desktop only on 1", but I cant choose "show desktop only on 2" option. If I do then The box appears again. I tried to go to safe mode and fix the resolution there but in safe mode the laptop can't detect the second screen. Oh and my OS is windows 7. Please need urgent help or else my dad will kill me!