Imgormiel
Part of the furniture
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- Apr 18, 2004
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Ok, friend asks me round to fix his pc, says something about accidently reinstalling windows on his socket a old piece of crap - yup i am that pissed with it.
So I go round, see what the installation is doing, it gets to a certain point and then just completely stops and locks his keyboard and mouse out. He insists that he wants to keep everything that was on the hdd.
Ok, so i suggest he buys a new ide hdd and we install from fresh from there - yup he's on socket a ^_^. Gets the new hdd, tries every mobo setting so come to the conclusion that the hdd is dead. Takes it back to the shop, and it was. So we get a new hdd, puts it on, windows xp installation and same thing happens again so interrupt and get an ntldr problem. Bios flashed, try again and same happens.
Tests the new hdd on my pc, and his old one, old one is now dead. Takes the new hdd back to the shop as I know it's working and gets it formatted. Reconnects the hdd back to his comp, bios read that and a new dvd rom (ide) i got just in case his old one wasn't correctly reading his windows disk again a known problem. Installation of windows does not find his hdd even though the bios knows that it's there. So headache time, I go and do a bit of research to find this is a common problem and that he needs to change his on chip settings in advanced peripherals to IDE instead of RAID.
So I phoned him and told him to do that, now he's saying that option isn't there, he didn't get any disks or manual with the second hand comp that he was given for free and no drivers with it. Yeah I can F6 the windows installation and try get some drivers and see what happens, but seriously, I am really thinking of telling him to shove it up arse because this thing seriously needs a sledge hammer to it imo
So I go round, see what the installation is doing, it gets to a certain point and then just completely stops and locks his keyboard and mouse out. He insists that he wants to keep everything that was on the hdd.
Ok, so i suggest he buys a new ide hdd and we install from fresh from there - yup he's on socket a ^_^. Gets the new hdd, tries every mobo setting so come to the conclusion that the hdd is dead. Takes it back to the shop, and it was. So we get a new hdd, puts it on, windows xp installation and same thing happens again so interrupt and get an ntldr problem. Bios flashed, try again and same happens.
Tests the new hdd on my pc, and his old one, old one is now dead. Takes the new hdd back to the shop as I know it's working and gets it formatted. Reconnects the hdd back to his comp, bios read that and a new dvd rom (ide) i got just in case his old one wasn't correctly reading his windows disk again a known problem. Installation of windows does not find his hdd even though the bios knows that it's there. So headache time, I go and do a bit of research to find this is a common problem and that he needs to change his on chip settings in advanced peripherals to IDE instead of RAID.
So I phoned him and told him to do that, now he's saying that option isn't there, he didn't get any disks or manual with the second hand comp that he was given for free and no drivers with it. Yeah I can F6 the windows installation and try get some drivers and see what happens, but seriously, I am really thinking of telling him to shove it up arse because this thing seriously needs a sledge hammer to it imo