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by **AnnieDreams** » 4/19/2009, 5:55 pm

...what's an mfg?

by **saman** » 4/19/2009, 7:51 pm

manufacturer.

honestly, andrea, it sounds more like a hardware problem than a software one. possibly the motherboard. how long have you had the laptop? and has this only been happening since you got windows 7?

if you want to try the recovery cd route, you can, but it might be worth your time and money just to take it to computer repair shop and get them to at least diagnose the problem for you.

as for what recovery cds are, they're just windows dvds that you would use for reinstalling windows on your computer. did the guy who put windows 7 on your computer give you the cds with the operating system on them? if not, you may have to make them yourself

by **Kicker774** » 4/20/2009, 6:58 am

More than likely if a different operating system has been installed the recovery partition (If there was one to beign with) is gone so you wouldn't be able to access the program to burn a recovery DVD.

Also more than likely it's a umpteen GB file so it's nothing you could easily download.

by **AnnieDreams** » 4/20/2009, 4:11 pm

Oh, I still have my Winows 7 disc. I can reinstall that if necessary.
And it's only been happening since then, but it was largely unusable for other reasons until my recent windows install, so it's uncertain if there's actually a correlation there.

The things is, I just had it with a tech guy! He's the one who created the whole locked-out-of-windows fiasco to begin with!
The laptop is just a few months past a year old (and hence just a few months past warranty). The fan got clogged up last month, and when I took it to get fixed my Windows got deactivated, and now that I fixed that it keeps freezing. When will my computer woes be done?

by **saman** » 4/20/2009, 4:29 pm

lol nice. well, it's not really the tech's fault that your version of windows was pirated, though i don't know why he would've even turned it on if it was only a dusting. maybe he did so to check if it was working better.

anywho, my recommendation of taking to a tech still stands, since this is a different problem than before. you can reinstall windows 7 on it again if you like, but i'm not convinced that it'll achieve anything

by **AnnieDreams** » 4/20/2009, 5:51 pm

I can get turning it on, but why connect to microsoft? He knew it belonged to a teenager prone to internet pirating!

I did that disc-check thing someone suggested and I haven't had the problem again yet... Then again that was only 3 hours ago.
I'm gonna try showing some tech-savy friends this time, since it's not during exams so they'll actually have time for me. Hopefully someone will be able to figure it out.

by **saman** » 4/20/2009, 6:08 pm

automatic updates, maybe? well, good luck!

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