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Alternatively, and the proper way, remove/switch over the CMOS reset jumper and power up the system again.
Replace before the next power up.
Check your mobo's manual for details.

2013-03-03 16:20:22

#11284

FFLink: There is.; +1,380|7117|Devon, England

Both ways work just fine. I always find it a lot easier to pull the battery than to pull the pin.

Of course, pretty much all "newer" mobos will have a reset button, AFAIK

2013-03-03 16:24:53

#11285

eleven bravo: Member; +1,399|5685|foggy bottom

what if theres something wrong with my windows and nothing wrong with any of that other shit

Tu Stultus Es

2013-03-03 16:47:44

#11286

_j5689_: Dreads & Bergers; +364|7143|Riva, MD

FFLink wrote:
Both ways work just fine. I always find it a lot easier to pull the battery than to pull the pin.

Of course, pretty much all "newer" mobos will have a reset button, AFAIK

The B75 chipset mobo my cousin just bought still only has a reset jumper, no button. Almost all of the enthusiast-grade boards I've seen have buttons though, the B75 was meant to be a consumer/business chipset from what I'm reading so it makes sense that it wouldn't come on a cheap sub-$100 board that has it

eleven bravo wrote:
what if theres something wrong with my windows and nothing wrong with any of that other shit

I've seen many other computers do what yours is doing, there never seems to be any symptoms of catastrophic hardware failure, it just seems like something just gets corrupted in all of Windows' important booting stuff for some reason and it just needs a reformat.

What I would do is hook the hard drive up to another computer to back everything up onto it(also seeing if the hard drive is still accessible at all like Fin said), then put it back in and reinstall windows and move all your stuff back on. If the hard drive is having a lot of errors/corrupted files that you have to skip while you're backing it up, then that's how you know you'll need a new hard drive.

Not sure what you meant by boot disc btw

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2013-03-03 17:16:51

#11287

unnamednewbie13: Moderator; +2,072|7198|PNW

_j5689_ wrote:
Not sure what you meant by boot disc btw

2013-03-03 17:19:38

#11288

eleven bravo: Member; +1,399|5685|foggy bottom

i dont have any windows discs

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2013-03-03 17:49:08

#11289

_j5689_: Dreads & Bergers; +364|7143|Riva, MD

You'll have to torrent a copy of exactly whichever version of Windows you're using(Windows Vista Home Premium, Windows 7 Ultimate, Windows XP Pro, etc), which is perfectly legal since you already have a license for it anyway, then make either a disc or a bootable USB of the Windows image(Microsoft has their own incredibly easy to use tool for this here), then install it and use the key on the sticker that's pasted somewhere on your computer when it asks to make the copy genuine.

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2013-03-03 17:53:39

#11290

eleven bravo: Member; +1,399|5685|foggy bottom

heres another bump in the road. the bigest usb drive i have is 2gb and the dvd drive isnt burning shit on my laptop

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2013-03-03 17:55:28

#11291

eleven bravo: Member; +1,399|5685|foggy bottom

how do i getmy laptop dvd drive to burn again

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2013-03-03 17:56:10

#11292

Jay: Bork! Bork! Bork!; +2,006|5784|London, England

just run down to 7-11 and get a new usb drive

"Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough."
-Frederick Bastiat

2013-03-03 18:00:39

#11293

_j5689_: Dreads & Bergers; +364|7143|Riva, MD

You can get a 16GB flash drive for $10 or less if you go to certain stores like Microcenter, or get a cheaper 8GB just to get the job done, for some reason I was having trouble putting it on my 4GB so I don't recommend anything less than 8.

Otherwise you'll have to find somebody else who can burn you a copy

2013-03-03 18:07:22

#11294

jsnipy: ...; +3,277|6948|...

costco 3 16GB's for 27bux

2013-03-06 10:25:17

#11295

_j5689_: Dreads & Bergers; +364|7143|Riva, MD

I'm having to go over to my grandparents house to show my 83 year old grandad how to do something pretty much every single day now that he bought a new computer with Windows 8. He was perfectly fine with Windows XP and Windows 7.

Surprisingly he's not having much of any trouble at all with Metro though, it's mostly other things that have changed like not being able to find Freecell and Chess anymore and now he's unable to print.

I can only imagine what a nightmare this must be for any IT department that was unfortunate enough to be with a company that decided to deploy Windows 8 immediately

2013-03-06 11:48:41

#11296

Finray: Hup! Dos, Tres, Cuatro; +2,629|6214|Catherine Black

I don't see why, once you put a start button on you can do everything the same way.

2013-03-08 16:29:15

#11297

pirana6: Go Cougs!; +697|6717|Washington St.

why are unattend answer files so complicated?
I want an xml file that skips EVERYTHING. I've got a prebuild so skip the language, put everything on 1 disk, 1 partition C:, make the network 'work', skip the user creation, and call it a day. How can that possibly require me to keep fucking up my unattend file?

2013-03-10 14:58:06

#11298

Dauntless: Admin; +2,249|7168|London

you get it working?

i don't think i've made an unattend file for windows 7 but i've made quite a few for Windows Embedded Standard 7, which is the same as win7 but with more customization.

I use a toolkit called Image Configuration Editor to help create my unattend files, I'm pretty sure there's something like that for win7 but I can't remember what it's called.

http://i.imgur.com/HlKGVKA.png