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    I always used Baku and now it came around and bit me.

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by thegreatsquare, Dec 30, 2008.

  1. thegreatsquare

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    It took my Windows Activation and it is gone. Worse yet is that I was going to return this cause I came into more money and I was going to get the SLI Sager instead.

    But what am I supposed to do with this? How do I fix this?


    Edit: Baku NEVER did this to me before.
     
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    ClearSkies Well no, I'm still here..

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    If you're planning to return the unit, I guess you could always try to recover to factory-ship state using the recovery partition or DVD?
     
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    Which is quicker & easier. PS, never installed OS before.
     
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    Well I returned it the other day. I tried Oblivion after the re-install cause that's my game above all. For some reason Oblivion would crash on fast-travel with the OC, but not when it was without the OC. So that sealed it.

    One thing of note. I did a clean install prior to returning it so that I had none of my info on it. When I first got it they told me they only had ones that they performed some sort of optimization that cost $40. Well when I finished running the install of the OS, drivers and software I found that I was running the same 80 PROCESSES that I was running when I brought it home. So beware of the "services" Best Buy offers or claim to have done, because if they actually do anything then it isn't anything you'd actually be able to tell was done.

    ...and then BB hit me with a 15% restocking fee even though I explained the instability I experienced due to the ASUS OC program.

    Suffice it to say that I won't deal with Best Buy ever again.
     
    thegreatsquare, Jan 2, 2009
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