Posted on 11/18/2005 8:41:32 AM PST by meanie monster
Ok, I bought a puter from WalMart on July 23,2005. Compaq Presario SR1403wm XP SP2 came preinstalled. I have 256 memory 65 gig hard drive.
Windoze does not recognize my cd/dvd/rw drive. Gone in BIOS! Got to tinkering around and saw a lot of freaking i tunes crap on there from August 2004????WTF I have NEVER been to i tunes or even opened it???
So did WalFart sell me a refurbished system as a new one? It appears they sold me a HUGE VIRUS w/ a PUTER wrapped around it,,lol.
Meanie is MAD!!! tech help sux and I feel smashing something..Advice on what to do. Thanks in advance.
Relax. The Aug 2004 is probably the creation date of files that were pre-installed in your system. If imaged yesterday they would still have the same date.
Uh, no.
What is eating away my memory then?
"Gone in BIOS!"
Then it doesn't have jack to do with Windows. Main board, cable, or CD ROM.
Hey - I know a lil freeper...
Buy a Compaq anything was the first mistake.
Alzheimers?
Just kidding. If you mean RAM, then it's probably all the TSRs that come with any Windows OEM system - Windows agents, antivirus, etc. If it's HD space you're losing, be aware that you never actually get the full rating of the HD after formatting. And you may have a "restore" partition of a few gigs, a lot of companies do that nowadays.
LOL, says on the box to send to hp?? This sux ass.
http://65.7.88.77:8080/ see my monkeys lol.
If you bought it last summer it should still be under warranty. Check with Walmart. They should fix it or give you a new one, unless they find some kind of an out in the small print, or claim it's your fault. In any case it's worth trying.
If you lost personal files, that's another matter. You probably can't expect Walmart maintenance to save them. The alternative, if you can't do it, would be to pay an expert to do it.
I haven't bought a Walmart computer, but it wouldn't be surprising if it had a lot of i-Tunes preinstalled, for buyers to download onto their iPods. The lowest common denominator computer buyer is probably a game-playing, tune-playing, web surfing kid.
They'll take it back no one at Wal-mart can read anyway.
And say goodbye to $800 spent on the name.
"What is eating away my memory then?"
I think post number 4...:)
i bought it july 2005
I would recommend you download the 30-day evaluation copy from Systweak at www.systweak.com try their advanced system software and go through it - every step and clean your system, memory and register.
As for the 256 memory, you should double it, memory is very in-expensive.
The_Victor,
If it does what someone wants it to do, then it isn't wasted. There is no reason for those kinds of comments.
It would be difficult to identify the problem without looking at the machine. My first guess is that if the DVD drive is not found by BIOS, then, it is either that the drive is dead, or hopefully the data cable came off.
If you know your way around the inside, it is easy to fix. If you have not, but want to learn, find a geek and they can show you how to do it.
If, on the other hand, you have never cracked the case and have no desire to learn, take it to Best Buy and they can tell you the problem in most cases.
Alzheimers?
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