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I just passed my one yr analog Free anniversary ! yippee smoke free since 1/21/12 !!!!
Well good job you guys.
April will be a year for me, but it feels like it was a million years ago. So much has happened since then.
April will be a year for me, but it feels like it was a million years ago. So much has happened since then.
I could stand to win some juice. My difference check won't be cut until February 22nd.
Feeling much better today! STARVING after 4 days of sick-o food deprivation. Costco for food, and one of those chicken bake things methinks.
Wow was just gifted a free Dell lap top. It was one of those if you can fix it you can keep it type things. Fixed it in about 10 minutes fine and dandy. Got admin rights no big deal. Tried to do a factory restore and cannot. It requests a admin login I type it in and it tells me "The specified domain does not exist or cannot be connected with". Then tried to get into the PC restore tools from command prompt and that unspecified errors out at around 30%. ... been researching this for the last 5 hours and I'm about ready to punch a baby...... Figuratively of course. OK rant over at least I now that I will never a Dell without actually having to shell out the money for one and being upset.
I had a friend of mine recently send me a laptop all the way from germany, one of those oldschool Asus EEE PCs. I had to get a battery for it, but that was a good deal. Thing was the bootloader was screwed up so I had a hell of a time fixing it, but it's purring happily now and I'm running linux on it.
Yeah I think linux may be my only option. Read the Dell forums for a couple hours several examples of the problem and Dell has zero solutions. Seems its been a problem for 3 years or so without a fix. Apparently when you first setup a Dell laptop it has you set up an admin account that is never referenced again. After windows is fully set up you create your user account. You need that first account to do a factory restore. Perhaps it stored in BIOS may have to dig around some more. Argh
Bleh, dell and alienware.
Years ago a guy i was seeing tried to buy a used alienware laptop, was a good price. But it managed to lose it's drivers for the screen SOMEHOW every time you turned it on. You can't just download alienware drivers from anywhere, and they wouldn't give them to us because we weren't the original owners. he thought he could be clever and buy like, a networking cable from t heir website to become a customer and get access to the drivers, but it didn't work out. wound up taking the damn thing back to the pawn shop.
You don't have an old windows xp disc laying around or anything? Or if the CD key is on a sticker on the side of the tower you should be able to download that appropriate version of windows as an OS disc rather than using a restore disc or factory restore (which probably includes a cubic ton of bloatware anyway)
Years ago a guy i was seeing tried to buy a used alienware laptop, was a good price. But it managed to lose it's drivers for the screen SOMEHOW every time you turned it on. You can't just download alienware drivers from anywhere, and they wouldn't give them to us because we weren't the original owners. he thought he could be clever and buy like, a networking cable from t heir website to become a customer and get access to the drivers, but it didn't work out. wound up taking the damn thing back to the pawn shop.
You don't have an old windows xp disc laying around or anything? Or if the CD key is on a sticker on the side of the tower you should be able to download that appropriate version of windows as an OS disc rather than using a restore disc or factory restore (which probably includes a cubic ton of bloatware anyway)
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