I don't see a distro for PCLOS and don't know how to get into their forum, sooooooooo

I have tried several times to install the latest fullmonty PCLOS. It seems to install correctly, but, when I start it up the 1st time, it doesn't give me the start-up screens: set admin p/w, personal p/w, etc. Instead it goes to a log-in screen.

When I use this distro as a virtual machine it works great.

I'm confused!!

I'm running this on an HP Pavilion G7 with 8 g's of RAM, 500 G harddrive.

Do you mean PCLinuxOS? http://www.pclinuxos.com/