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Paul K · 02-07-2005, 21:46

Yep 2 years without an extended warranty will leave you out in the cold, should be fixable though with an XP CD and drivers. It should pick up a lot of the drivers from the XP CD but there may be a few that need finding. Apart from that the only loss will be any software that gets installed through the restore CD.

The Fool · 02-07-2005, 21:50

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Yep 2 years without an extended warranty will leave you out in the cold, should be fixable though with an XP CD and drivers. It should pick up a lot of the drivers from the XP CD but there may be a few that need finding. Apart from that the only loss will be any software that gets installed through the restore CD.

well thanks for all the advice anyway. Will see what happens tommorow, i will report back if anyone cares for me to do so

Paul K · 02-07-2005, 21:50

We don't mind lol, if you need help sourcing drivers then post back tomorrow.

AndrewJ · 03-07-2005, 00:46

Emachines... the feared across the galaxy PCworld special, people have been known to go crazy in fear of the sheer crapness which beholds a Emachines computer.

03-07-2005, 07:37

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As long as you have a valid and legal license key you have ways around their penny pinching. Personally I wouldn't buy another PB if someone offered me a brand new top range model for a fiver.

Oh come on its worth ÃƒÆ’Ã†â€™ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã…Â¡ÃƒÆ’Ã¢â‚¬Å¡Ãƒâ€šÃ‚Â£5 as a doorstop

GeoffW · 03-07-2005, 09:57

Your point about the lack of source OS disks is true. I just bought a HP Pavillion, not only did it come with no OS disk, there was also no recovery disk. It does have a recovery partition, but that wipes it to a factory default. There is a utility installed that will let you create a recovery disk but..... wait for it..... you can *only* run this once to create a single recovery set. I'm not sure what you're meant to do if one of your 7 CDRs is flaky, or as in my case, you make recovery disks with CDRs as you have no blank DVDs at the time.

Cheap and frustrating penny pinching IMHO, I did however get a free AOL and Yahoo CD.

Paul K · 03-07-2005, 10:01

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Originally Posted by GeoffW

Your point about the lack of source OS disks is true. I just bought a HP Pavillion, not only did it come with no OS disk, there was also no recovery disk. It does have a recovery partition, but that wipes it to a factory default. There is a utility installed that will let you create a recovery disk but..... wait for it..... you can *only* run this once to create a single recovery set. I'm not sure what you're meant to do if one of your 7 CDRs is flaky, or as in my case, you make recovery disks with CDRs as you have no blank DVDs at the time.

Which to me is rediculous as it means your customers have no choice in how they can recover their system if a serious problem occurs. It's format or nothing

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Cheap and frustrating penny pinching IMHO, I did however get a free AOL and Yahoo CD.

Ah well there you go, a free drinks coaster

McSqueal · 03-07-2005, 11:15

kinda off topic but still about Pb's why are they so crap, i'll admit i had one aswell and hated it about 2 days after getting it, but why is there rep for pc's so bad ?

EDIT> Spelling

03-07-2005, 11:26

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Originally Posted by GeoffW

Your point about the lack of source OS disks is true. I just bought a HP Pavillion, not only did it come with no OS disk, there was also no recovery disk. It does have a recovery partition, but that wipes it to a factory default. There is a utility installed that will let you create a recovery disk but..... wait for it..... you can *only* run this once to create a single recovery set. I'm not sure what you're meant to do if one of your 7 CDRs is flaky, or as in my case, you make recovery disks with CDRs as you have no blank DVDs at the time.

Cheap and frustrating penny pinching IMHO, I did however get a free AOL and Yahoo CD.

Just copy the cds you make with clone cd or nero,can you not make the recovery set burn with nero or something? this then could allow you to write image to file?

TBH and purely IMO dump the install anyway and start afresh all the bloat that tries to take over your system anyway.Also you end up with large hard drives with no second partition ,Norton ghost once the reinstall and set up is what I always use

The Fool · 04-07-2005, 14:22

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We don't mind lol, if you need help sourcing drivers then post back tomorrow.

put a new power supply unit on and reinstalled windows using the cr*ppy restore disks. Lost a bit of data but, hey, I needed a spring clean anyway. So the machine is running again now for anyone interested

04-07-2005, 14:30

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put a new power supply unit on and reinstalled windows using the cr*ppy restore disks. Lost a bit of data but, hey, I needed a spring clean anyway. So the machine is running again now for anyone interested

Now make copies of the discs using nero so you have back up of the back ups