Forum: Troubleshooting Dead Machines Aug 9th, 2005 |
| Replies: 2 Views: 3,242 Windows XP copy protection sees the new motherboard and ASSUMES you are a pirate.. Good ol' Gates...
You can boot to a Linux Live CD like Mepis or Knoppix (Free) and recover your files then... |
Forum: Troubleshooting Dead Machines Jul 6th, 2005 |
| Replies: 10 Views: 2,692 Start with Everest from lavalys to identify what hardware you have.
(Free for non-business user)
Ask your neighbor for any driver discs that came with his PC...
Specifically one for the... |
Forum: Troubleshooting Dead Machines Jan 13th, 2005 |
| Replies: 11 Views: 14,965 If that is a recovery disk and not a full version you may need to create a small partition andmake it bootable for the CD to work... |
Forum: Troubleshooting Dead Machines Nov 22nd, 2004 |
| Replies: 5 Views: 7,276 It will continue to report that the case was opened until you go into CMOS and clear the case open report.
You should even be able to turn the check for case open feature off. |