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Old Mar 24, 2013 | 08:13 PM
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Originally Posted by madrussian190
dnd2984... I'm sorry you did that...

ohh well... just don't try to do anything fancy to it, it will break
moron post is moronic
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Old Mar 26, 2013 | 04:15 PM
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I came and brought back Lazarus... junk was cooked. a simple chkdsk showed bad sections or something.

So like any Southern mechanic, I took the back off and beat the hard drive like hell with a screw driver. Actually that method gave me a weird, but "peek at some text" screen for about 5 secs.

With that, I took an install disk from a 1996 desktop. It did something to Bios enough to do a advanced boot under a factory image. (Why not the install disk for this machine??? Because somebody broke into the house on only stole it.) So the hardrive is reformated... everything I had is gone. (Well I did recover some from my phone, SD's and other places. )

Already restored SP2, Kies, and working on the other.

But I'm still keeping my order for the Alien. I know the screwdriver method doesn't last long.
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Old Mar 26, 2013 | 10:07 PM
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And to add to the above, MS Office may be in trouble. For the first time I did NOT spend the bucks to get this on my new computer. I have other CPUs, tablets and phones to get the same message across. (I also have old 2007 disks with codes if needed).

At first, I thought S. Jobs was crazy with doing away with optical support and the such. But why install a 10 megaton system when: 1) I could send it to his cloud or sun for $1.99 a pop or 2) transfer it it my phone and touch another one and the idea is transferred. All of this while paying maybe $2.99 a session to create on their software.
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Old Mar 27, 2013 | 02:38 AM
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Old Mar 27, 2013 | 07:45 AM
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Old Mar 29, 2013 | 08:39 PM
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$3.49 inverter and I real old computer comes back to life. I'm still getting my GD Alien.
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Old Apr 6, 2013 | 08:09 PM
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The purple Alien came in today and she's up and running (with 32 gb of ram... toss it abit) to kick some ass.

Out of all the crap, I had the most trouble with microsoft trying to get a gd password to give them money to download office 2013.

I'm going to need a crash course in Win 8. I can't even get to a home screen without hitting the win button.
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Old Apr 7, 2013 | 01:16 PM
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Damn weird thing. I had to renter a lot of user names and password, but about 50 percent was known by this computer.
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Old Apr 7, 2013 | 01:37 PM
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What drug?
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