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VISTA KILLED MY BIOS...what do I do next?
Gee, did I make the people who work for Microsoft irrate? Since this is a beta version it is supposed to have glitches..The XP operating system has NEVER MODIFIED MY BIOS IN SUCH A WAY AS TO HAVE THE COMPUTER ENTER A PREBOOT ENVIRONMENT. But why waste time telling you all this....someone else already helped me get my computer back up and running without being "uppity" about it. This OS will flop big time for Microsoft. People will only switch over when forced to for hardware issues. Too bad, I was expecting something better. Yeah and LINUX works just fine on my computer. Unlike VISTA...You guys have the communist mentality-only one OS...others are evil....but you could learn from them...and from us. But since you don't like me posting what actuallly happened...then that's fine with me.. |
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VISTA KILLED MY BIOS...what do I do next?
you just get back what you seeded (by telling everybody to not waste their
time with it). Vista will not modify your bios, period. I can see that it messes up your partition table and mbr, which would lead to the listed problems. but bios, if that was true, then hats off to MS. "matasvytautas" wrote in message news Gee, did I make the people who work for Microsoft irrate? Since this is a beta version it is supposed to have glitches..The XP operating system has NEVER MODIFIED MY BIOS IN SUCH A WAY AS TO HAVE THE COMPUTER ENTER A PREBOOT ENVIRONMENT. But why waste time telling you all this....someone else already helped me get my computer back up and running without being "uppity" about it. This OS will flop big time for Microsoft. People will only switch over when forced to for hardware issues. Too bad, I was expecting something better. Yeah and LINUX works just fine on my computer. Unlike VISTA...You guys have the communist mentality-only one OS...others are evil....but you could learn from them...and from us. But since you don't like me posting what actuallly happened...then that's fine with me.. |
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VISTA KILLED MY BIOS...what do I do next?
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"Hilmar" wrote in message ... you just get back what you seeded (by telling everybody to not waste their time with it). Vista will not modify your bios, period. I can see that it messes up your partition table and mbr, which would lead to the listed problems. but bios, if that was true, then hats off to MS. "matasvytautas" wrote in message news Gee, did I make the people who work for Microsoft irrate? Since this is a beta version it is supposed to have glitches..The XP operating system has NEVER MODIFIED MY BIOS IN SUCH A WAY AS TO HAVE THE COMPUTER ENTER A PREBOOT ENVIRONMENT. But why waste time telling you all this....someone else already helped me get my computer back up and running without being "uppity" about it. This OS will flop big time for Microsoft. People will only switch over when forced to for hardware issues. Too bad, I was expecting something better. Yeah and LINUX works just fine on my computer. Unlike VISTA...You guys have the communist mentality-only one OS...others are evil....but you could learn from them...and from us. But since you don't like me posting what actuallly happened...then that's fine with me.. |
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VISTA KILLED MY BIOS...what do I do next?
What actually happened is as such, I decided to wipe out the hard drive and did so accordingly. However, uninstalling Vista using this method did indeed modify my BIOS. It could no longer find the hard drive. The fix was simple. Flash the BIOS and everything works fine. When I wrote to this forum, I though (silly me) that I would get a quick and accurate reply since my problem was not complicated to resolve, but required knowledge that I lacked. Since I am testing Vista and this is the place to try to find answers to my problems (a bug in the OS if you ask me) then I tried to find the answer here...but this is a problem that many people could encounter..and could cause the same problems for them also. So that is why I pointed out the problem.. |