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Thread: Windows vista /problems & headackes |
    
Silver Member Username: Cartier1
Post Number: 391
Registered: Feb-07
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| Posted on Monday, April 09, 2007 - 05:02 pm: |
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friend of mine bought a computer with no windows instaled to it . he was given window vista. i got it from him and i just did the upgrad over my xp. i did not have to use any product keys. after 3 weeks , it does not reboot and i got only black screen with the message to enter the product keys. i have no access to anything . i could not get the keys , and it says a copy of this windows is not genuiun . even it was original from best buy . i wanted to go back to xp but even using the xp cd does not boot from the cd . any help thanx . |
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Silver Member Username: Stefanom
Vienna,
VA
United States
Post Number: 477
Registered: Apr-06
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| Posted on Monday, April 09, 2007 - 05:41 pm: |
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I presume you know how to change the boot order to boot to a CD... Maybe a boot disk with a partitioning utility like f-disk would work.
FWIW, I wouldn't bother with Vista. Having worked a little bit with it now, it is a giant pain in the butt for the most part. |
Silver Member Username: Cartier1
Post Number: 392
Registered: Feb-07
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| Posted on Monday, April 09, 2007 - 05:45 pm: |
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i got dell i dont know what key to hit to go to change the boot sequence |
Bronze Member Username: Msvara
Post Number: 34
Registered: Sep-06
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| Posted on Monday, April 30, 2007 - 10:22 am: |
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I believe it's the F12 key to show boot devices for a Dell. |
Silver Member Username: Shane24
Post Number: 140
Registered: Mar-07
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| Posted on Tuesday, May 01, 2007 - 01:27 pm: |
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Yeah Try f12,delete,f9 or f10 then u'll get the bios setup, change first boot device to ur cd or dvdrom whichever u have, followed by ur harddrive, and i guess u know the rest of it..
After having installed Win XP, on your system and installed ur software,driver's and such, restart and change 1st boot device to ur harddrive,followed by ur dvd/cd roms respectivley, coz it tends to take a while to boot if ur harddrive is on 2nd boot device, as I have experienced that several times... |
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