Our HP Pavilion PC had a motherboard failure early in January. We
got it professionally repaired (new motherboard). However, the OS
"First Aid Recovery Kit" CD that came with it refused to
reinstall the OS, claiming that it wasn't an HP Pavilion. I'm pretty
sure that the CD was made so that I couldn't (for example) loan the CD
to my dad, to let him upgrade from Win 3.1 to 95.
Under DMCA, the tweaks required to make the OS run on the post-repair
computer are illegal, despite the fact that all the components were
both purchased legally and used in ways an ordinary consumer would expect
to work.
--Beth
[P.S. If you're wondering what happened to the PC, we eventually got
it to limp along, but the windows-side of it still won't play Diablo 2.
The Linux side we installed on it works fine.]
My Linux Alpha from Microway stopped working sometime between 2am PST December 31st and noon December 31st when I woke up. I'm using a different machine to post this.
When I got up this morning the power save on the monitor wouldn't go off, even after turning the monitor on and off again. We couldn't log in to it remotely. Ping returned nothing.
As a last resort we tried turning it off and on again. The "Please select the operating system to start" screen gives Linux as its only choice. After choosing Linux it says, "The highlighted Operating System Selection is not valid. To modify an Operating System Selection enter Setup option."
We've tried turning the date back on the bios, but that doesn't change anything. My husband suspects the hard drive. I'm not sure if there is a virus that does this. We've been attacked before, but it was the other machine (the one I'm writing this post from) that was compromised.
If anyone has any ideas, I'd sure appreciate them. Normally I'd ask for e-mail, but Frost was our e-mail server and it is the one that is down... I just signed up for a yahoo mail account to take responses. Try mailing beth_leonard@yahoo.com.
I tried calling Microway, but their number just rang until I got the operator's "If you'd like to make a call, please hang up and try again," message.
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got it professionally repaired (new motherboard). However, the OS
"First Aid Recovery Kit" CD that came with it refused to
reinstall the OS, claiming that it wasn't an HP Pavilion. I'm pretty
sure that the CD was made so that I couldn't (for example) loan the CD
to my dad, to let him upgrade from Win 3.1 to 95.
Under DMCA, the tweaks required to make the OS run on the post-repair
computer are illegal, despite the fact that all the components were
both purchased legally and used in ways an ordinary consumer would expect
to work.
--Beth
[P.S. If you're wondering what happened to the PC, we eventually got
it to limp along, but the windows-side of it still won't play Diablo 2.
The Linux side we installed on it works fine.]
When I got up this morning the power save on the monitor wouldn't go off, even after turning the monitor on and off again. We couldn't log in to it remotely. Ping returned nothing.
As a last resort we tried turning it off and on again. The "Please select the operating system to start" screen gives Linux as its only choice. After choosing Linux it says, "The highlighted Operating System Selection is not valid. To modify an Operating System Selection enter Setup option."
We've tried turning the date back on the bios, but that doesn't change anything. My husband suspects the hard drive. I'm not sure if there is a virus that does this. We've been attacked before, but it was the other machine (the one I'm writing this post from) that was compromised.
If anyone has any ideas, I'd sure appreciate them. Normally I'd ask for e-mail, but Frost was our e-mail server and it is the one that is down... I just signed up for a yahoo mail account to take responses. Try mailing beth_leonard@yahoo.com.
I tried calling Microway, but their number just rang until I got the operator's "If you'd like to make a call, please hang up and try again," message.