One of those headache jobs...

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Hi all,

last week went to a job, had a dodgy copy of XP, bought the real deal from MS, installed over the top.. kept crashing, umm, took the drive away to rescue pics/music-done. Told her to hoover(carefully) the inside as caked in dust while i did drive. Took drive back booted up, cd drive dead... ok, aint got time, take base unit away. Booted up-cmos checksum error, oh, battery dead?? Another batt, fine, leave for an hour, checksum error, 3 more batts, same thing.................Internet-motherboard manual, look on board no cmos jumper on pins??? Jumpered it-all fine, she must have hoovered it up!!!!!!!!!!

Kat

 

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Heh, excellent work

Got a question for you actually following from that. I will be buying XP Pro in the very near future, as I have recently found out that mine is dodgy. I also don't have the disks it was installed on

Can I just plonk on a new, legit XP Pro on top of that? I don't need the installation disks of my current version at all do I?

Cheers

 

Hi C,

nah, when you get ur proper CD, just boot it for a clean install, back up youre files 1st, clean install always best.
K

 

Excellent, thanks very much. Hopefully gonna get it in the next week or so.

 

Hi AJ,
yeh probably, she ordered the CD when it was saying u have dodgy blah blah.. Sure you can just get a bona fide key, but hey having the CD is better surely.
Kat

 

I would definately go the clean install route. If its a pirated version you have got, then theres no telling what other stuff could be present on there.

 

: is the first thing i'm saying...
did she physically use a hoover (vacuum) in the pc??? the way you are describing the user, ESD seems to be a major concern to me... could of had a load od static around, especially in those high heels! and pop!

she could of loosen a lot of things, best bet - pop over yourself, and ensure everything is sloted in nice.

agree with Raffaz - clean install is the way forward, but make sure the data is backed up before hand!

 

While I agree that wiping and reinstalling is always good, there *is* a way (M$ legal too) of putting a new key on a duff install. I've done this for a few clients, and if you need it I'll try and dig out the details.

Harry.