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    Got my 7811 and have questions

    Discussion in 'Gateway and eMachines' started by Bungles, Dec 25, 2008.

  1. Bungles

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    Ok so I got my 7811 today and it arrived with no scratches or dead pixels. It did arrive tho with the cover over the hard drives not screwed on correctly. Also when I try and boot it I get a no bootmgr error so I'm assuming there is not an operating system installed. Is that normal? I am wanting to Install xp so it may notbe a bad thing but I do find it odd
     
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    choder Notebook Consultant

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    Mine also arrived with the HDD panel poorly fitted. What the hell, eh? The HDD was seated correctly (in fact, I've been unable to remove the HDD) but the OS was hosed, so I ended up wiping it and loading Vista myself. Which is fine by me. I'd rather build the OS myself than use a manufacturer image.
     
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    hmmm this is weird eh?

    Mine is perfectly fine

    Bungles, i would call whoever you bought it from and let them know.

    Choder, yeah your own OS i better anyway because there will be no crapware :D

    Merry Christmas guys :)
     
    Red_Dragon, Dec 25, 2008
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  4. Bungles

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    I got one of the refurbished ones from tigerdirect. Yea I'll have to call them
     
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    alitunay Power Seller

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    I opened 5 of these and all of them had the hdd door screwed wrong. It looks like they don't know what they are doing.
     
    alitunay, Dec 25, 2008
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    Alitunay were your 5 also missing the OS?
     
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    I don't know. I didn't turn them on. I installed different hdds right away.
     
    alitunay, Dec 25, 2008
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    Also got mine today. HD door askew but OS installed and perfect condition. Load 08 bios and installed 2nd drive. So far excellant...............
     
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  9. Bungles

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    Turns out vista was installed on here...but my hdd is partitioned into 2 drives...kinda strange...anyways I repaired the OS with the vista cd and I'm updating stuff now. Where do I check to see what bios I have?
     
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  10. goodspeed(TPF)

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    Both of my refurbs were like this too. :eek: Weird. I loaded the 11 bios.
     
    goodspeed(TPF), Dec 25, 2008
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