Failed To Recognize The Cd Rom
Feb 13, 2007
My log in name doesn't really do my novice pc skill justice. I am actually dumber than a PC spare.
I decided to leave the stone age sort of and bought a copy of windows xp home to extend the life of my POS just a couple more months. I didn't want to buy a new computer and got a deal on a copy of xp home. I am planning on buying components and building a system from scratch soon, but for now just needed to keep going. Several of the sites I like to frequent recently upgraded and no longer support ME. The copy of xp I received turned out to be an OEM Windows XP Home w/ service pack 2.Like a moronic bozo I set my IOLO Drivescrubber into motion and whiped my HD clean. I didn't change anything in the bios as one: don't know how to and two: afraid to. Once the drive was clean however it failed to recognize the cd rom of xp. I then remembered I had to format and partition the drive in order for it to do so.
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Aug 2, 2005
I've purchased new HP notebook with preinstalled Windows XP Pro SP2. When today I tried to update my copy of Windows using Microsoft update service the Genuine Windows Validation program told me I'm using an illegal version of MS Windows, I've tried to reactivate my copy of OS by changing registry key and running But when I entered the OEM license number (as per HP OEM sticker) and attempted to activate, I was politely informed that the key number was mistyped (message number 45128) and invalid, yet the activation works when I'm not change serial key, The guys from HP customer support say it is Microsoft's problem.
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Apr 6, 2008
Motherboard Epox EP 8KDA 3J
OS XP SP2 Home E
AMD 3000+ CPU
Memory Upgrade
Original setup Had two 256 Rosewill DDR400
one open slot
INSTALLED 512m ampo D400 35145588-P-R
Into Slot #1
PC Ran OK with 512 Ram
Installed one of the Rosewill DDR400 256
into Slot #2
PC Ran OK with 768 Ram
Installed Rosewill DDR400 256
into Slot #3
PC would not Boot
Does not seem to recognize 3rd Slot
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