Posts by Larry Ortiz5

And Benjamin King2 knows, too, 😁

Yeah, there's a chance he accidentally shoved the monitor cable into the motherboard port instead of the GPU 😁

Honestly, it’s all just noise. If they’re playing at low resolutions or just don't care about the fine details—well, that’s their business. I don't really get why people have such strong biases about it... This is a solid graphics card, and honestly, what more do you even need? I mean, why does it even matter if the guy wants to pick up an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti?

How much do you usually charge for this kind of thing? If you don't mind me asking, of course 😁

Honestly, I used to charge by the $67. Why on earth is it so expensive? You’ve got the Windows installation, then activation, followed by all those Windows updates, plus hunting down drivers and getting essential software installed. The whole process drags on for three or four hours—man, Windows updates just eat up so much time. I'm not the kind of person who's going to just break a Windows setup and walk out, only to have them call me back later as a "returning customer" complaining about what isn't working. Either you do the job right from the start and stay patient, or don't bother doing it at all.

The temperatures aren't exactly critical, but if I were you, I'd grab some compressed air and give the laptop a good cleaning. CLICK HERE

Once that's done, go ahead and download those programs I mentioned in my previous post and run a scan on the system...

First, go ahead and download CPU-Z so we can get a better look at what those laptop temperatures are actually doing. You're more than welcome to just drop a screenshot here on the forum if that's easier. Once we check that, maybe try running a scan with Norton—who knows, there might be some malware lurking around causing trouble? After that, you could always run CCleaner to clear out all that digital junk that builds up over time.

Who knows where we'll be in five years? Honestly, these days, even a single-core processor struggles just to handle basic web browsing. I say that because technology moves at such a breakneck pace—everything shifts constantly, and you're always needing more powerful hardware just to keep up

I actually have to agree with you on this one for once 😁

I've always been an Intel guy—lower power draw, better temps, and just less headache overall...

I've gone ahead and updated my post..

Maybe try booting into Safe Mode? If you actually get a picture there, just uninstall those drivers for your 6770 card. Give the computer a quick restart, then head over to the manufacturer's site—AMD—to grab the latest drivers and see if that fixes things.

EDIT: My bad, I'm still a little hungover from last night—how am I supposed to suggest Safe Mode if you aren't even getting a signal when you power on? 🙂 Basically, try plugging the graphics card into another PC. If you still don't get an image, then it’s looking like there might be something wrong with the card itself.

HERE you can grab whichever Windows 10 version you’re looking for. It’ll be in an ISO file, so just make sure you burn it as a disc image if you want the DVD to actually be bootable 🙂

In my experience, you aren't going to hit those high numbers if you try to sell the computer as a single bundle—mostly because the scavengers out there are usually just hunting for one or two specific parts they're missing rather than an entire setup. 🙂 So, if you want a quicker, easier sale, I’d suggest listing the components separately... then, if you have anything left over that nobody seems interested in, you can always just drop the price a bit later.

Don't sweat the small stuff...

Maybe give it a shot by setting it to an IDE controller—see if that actually changes anything for you...

Take a look—is the BIOS set to IDE instead of AHCI?

That’s pretty old school... For maybe $600 you could snag a processor with integrated graphics, 4GB of RAM, a hard drive, an optical drive, a power supply, and even a brand-new case. Not to mention how much faster the computer would actually run...

Plus, let's be honest—hard drives aren't exactly breaking the bank these days, and you get the peace of mind of a solid warranty from Best Buy. I actually lucked out when I picked up a WD Green about a year ago; it was still vacuum-sealed when I got it, which felt great. If you can find a brand-new drive at a decent price point, why wouldn't you just grab it?

For me, the most important thing is making sure there aren't any bad sectors—that's the real dealbreaker. Honestly, how many hours the drive has actually been running doesn't matter all that much to me. I mean, maybe the HDD is just sitting there acting as extra storage—kind of like my own setup—while the OS and all the heavy lifting happen on an SSD or some other drive? If you're buying a used drive just for bulk storage, it probably hasn't even seen much heavy write activity anyway. 🤷