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cleolinda

Compocalypse '09: Despair

Aug 09, 2009 18:11

So I finally work up the nerve to set up Camille ( Read more... )

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cleolinda August 9 2009, 23:44:32 UTC

FUCKING HELL, ARE YOU KIDDING ME?

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cleolinda August 10 2009, 00:07:39 UTC

I was really, really hoping you were, though. D:

rorqual August 9 2009, 23:38:43 UTC

Typically, if you don't press 'del', or whatever, it will proceed onward and boot you into windows as normal. Nero 8 is software for handing media (like burning CDs and such), so you should be able to ignore that for now. Try turning on and not pressing anything. If that doesn't boot you through to windows....yeah, call a friend who can talk you through fiddling around. That's probably the easiest.

Good luck!

cleolinda August 9 2009, 23:45:42 UTC

Yeah, I tried waiting. It cycled back to the "Press DEL..." screen.

rorqual August 9 2009, 23:52:03 UTC

Sigh...and the comment above is truly disturbing. Hopefully particle_person below is right, and it's just a reinstall issue - and changing the settings to boot from cd is not that hard, it's just a pain. Sorry; I hope it all gets worked out!

jrs1980 August 9 2009, 23:41:51 UTC

Some companies aren't including user manuals anymore. You should be able to download it from the website. Edit: Found it.

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robling_t August 10 2009, 10:39:44 UTC

Oh, god, see me a couple of months ago for the whole "You expect me to make the appointment about the dead computer, ON-LINE???" saga... {sigh}

jrs1980 August 10 2009, 18:02:11 UTC

The logic is (at least with the company I work for) is that a lot of people don't read it anyway so might as well save the cost, and those who want it can find it. I agree that it works better for like, mp3 players, though.

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foresthouse August 9 2009, 23:45:33 UTC

Well sheeeet. What is up with that?

I have no advice better than that already given. Just sympathy, which I offer willingly.

*offers*

particle_person August 9 2009, 23:48:19 UTC

I guess now you know why it is called an ASUS.

Seriously, at worst you'll have to install a fresh copy of Windows from your Win XP CDs. You might have to change the BIOS settings briefly to make it boot from the CD, but that's the worst case.

cleolinda August 9 2009, 23:50:44 UTC

Well, and they included a Vista recovery CD, which I guess is how you install that yourself. It's a 64 bit whatever (as opposed to 32 bit, I mean), so I was told that XP wouldn't run, or wouldn't run well, on that.

particle_person August 9 2009, 23:53:48 UTC

Yeah, they're right. I forgot your XP was 32 bit.

particle_person August 9 2009, 23:55:13 UTC

The procedure is the same, though -- change the BIOS to boot from the CD drive, insert Windows CD, reboot computer, follow Windows directions.

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