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Thread ID: 103816	2009-10-07 07:10:00	Bad PC tech experience	whellington (15030)	PC World Chat

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817765	2009-10-07 08:35:00	If what you said is true. You would be CRAZY if you paid his $145 Fee. Refuse too. Tell him you were not happy with the service and that you are willing to take the matter further if he objects. I understand that not everyone offers a no fix no fee, so you may fell compelled to give him something but to pay that amount is not right. Sounds like a cowboy to me I only made a deposit of $65 like he quoted. I said i will pay the rest later (i probably won't :cool:)	whellington (15030)
817766	2009-10-07 08:46:00	At work we had a multitude of techs totally fail to set up a raid on the server. At no point did any of them stop to check if the MB jumpers were configured to even allow a raid configuration. (D'Oh!) Some techs know their stuff. Others are little more than hacks. Given the scope of hardware and software issues, nobody can be expected to have all the answers.	Paul.Cov (425)
817767	2009-10-07 09:24:00	Why on earth didn't you ring Wainuiotech? He is only over the hill in Wainuiomata He wasn't available Huh ???? no One called me - Little confused there ???? If you called someone in wainui - was the guy in the village was it ?? Thats NOT me. Any Way - I got your PM's I'll answer them tomorrow. Just repairing this PC at the moment.--- Yeah working late :crying Its usually easy enough to get the CD out of the drive, as mentioned, with the power turned off poke in a paper clip in the tiny hole in the front or something else - I have a piece of wire that just fits the holes, and give it a reasonably solid " poke" you should hear a "click", then manually pull open the tray. From your description in the original post, doesn't sounds like its the optical drive, or HDD, could be a fault on the board or the BIOS not set correctly.	wainuitech (129)
817768	2009-10-07 10:39:00	Huh ???? no One called me - Little confused there ???? If you called someone in wainui - was the guy in the village was it ?? Thats NOT me. Any Way - I got your PM's I'll answer them tomorrow. Just repairing this PC at the moment.--- Yeah working late :crying From your description in the original post, doesn't sounds like its the optical drive, or HDD, could be a fault on the board or the BIOS not set correctly. Wayne, Commend computer right? I called you but you weren't there and i didn't leave a msg lol. Good news, the drive isn't 'dead' like the tech said. It worked on my other system fine and i formatted to NTFS Then i put the hdd in the system that i wanna install the OS on - used a bootable usb to install vista. It got up to the stage where you have to select what drive you want to install the primary OS on. It detects the drive (x:boot, system, program files etc.) but says it needs drivers? Does it mean the drivers on a disk that came with the motherboard? Its usually easy enough to get the CD out of the drive, as mentioned, with the power turned off poke in a paper clip in the tiny hole in the front or something else - I have a piece of wire that just fits the holes, and give it a reasonably solid " poke" you should hear a "click", then manually pull open the tray. Yea i got the disk out, but no power goes to it	whellington (15030)
817769	2009-10-07 10:43:00	What drivers? Normally if it needs drivers (it wont recognise the hdd), when you go to install windows on it. These will be SATA drivers. The only way to fix this is to disable AHCI in the BIOS, or slipstream the SATA drivers for the hdd (but this would have to be slipstreamed on a copy of the windows cd).	Speedy Gonzales (78)
817770	2009-10-07 10:49:00	What drivers? Normally if it needs drivers (it wont recognise the hdd), when you go to install windows on it. These will be SATA drivers. The only way to fix this is to disable AHCI in the BIOS, or slipstream the SATA drivers for the hdd (but this would have to be slipstreamed on a copy of the windows cd). I'm pretty sure it recognize it cause when it says select the drivers. I go to x:boot and theres directory of files in the drive (program files, windows). The BIOS also recognizes the drive in the Hard drive boot section. I'll try disabling the AHCI in bois	whellington (15030)
817771	2009-10-07 11:03:00	Umm so when you copied vista to this usb flash drive, did you copy them (the files) as is (exactly like the cd)?? It sounds like you copied vista from the hdd to this USB flash drive (after vista had been installed)? Since as you've said, when it asked for the drivers, it showed program files / windows. It shouldnt show this on the Vista CD. And if this is what you did (copied the installed version of Vista from a hdd), its not going to work if youre trying to do a clean install.	Speedy Gonzales (78)
817772	2009-10-07 11:06:00	Umm so when you copied vista to this usb flash drive, did you copy them (the files) as is (exactly like the cd)?? It sounds like you copied vista from the hdd to this USB flash drive (after vista had been installed)? Since as you've said, when it asked for the drivers, it showed program files / windows). It shouldnt show this on the Vista CD. And if this is what you did (copied the installed version of Vista from a hdd), its not going to work if youre trying to do a clean install. No it was an ISO - extracted to USB with bootmgr This keeps coming up: (SELECT THE DRIVER TO BE INSTALLED). A window pops up and say (LOAD DRIVERS: NO DEVICE DRIVERS WERE FOUND. MAKE SURE THAT THE INSTALLATION MEDIA CONTAINS THE CORRECT DRIVERS, AND THEN CLICK OK), Then another window comes up and say's (SELECT DRIVER TO BE INSTALLED: TO INSTALL THE DEVICE DRIVER NEEDED TO ACCESS YOUR HARD DRIVE, INSERT THE INSTALLATION MEDIA CONTAINING THE DRIVER FILES, AND THEN CLICK OK, NOTE: THE INSTALLATION MEDIA CAN BE A FLOPPY DISK, CD, DVD, OR USB FLASH DRIVE). Info on the drive says: step 4: Run your PC bios/system setup program. Select the auto-detect option and enable logical block addressing (LBA) save and exit - i can't seem to find that in my BIOS	whellington (15030)
817773	2009-10-07 11:21:00	So whats in this ISO ? The contents of a Vista cd right? Not the contents of Vista after its been installed? Which wont work (this is what it sounds like)	Speedy Gonzales (78)
817774	2009-10-07 11:26:00	So whats in this ISO ? The contents of a Vista cd right? Not the contents of Vista after its been installed? Which wont work (this is what it sounds like) Umm i think i have installed vista with this disc before. I just moved all the files frm the disc to the USB	whellington (15030)
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