Posts by dbwilder

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Thanks for the suggestions, but I kinda had already addressed those in my original post. I have the BIOS utility downloaded, but it doesn't appear to run right. My question really boils down to: is this a problem that generally has to...

Apparantly my Sony S170's bios is corrupted. The computer has a different bios from what the model should, which prevents me from using Sony's media recovery disks to reinstall XP. Windows works fine but I won't be able to reinstall...

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yeah i know it would be wise to contact them first...its just that its such a huge pain in the ass! thanks for your help

i've reinstalled windows a bunch of times on my old dell laptop, but i had in hand dri vers for the monitor disk drives etc... This time I would have no drivers on hand, but would have to download them manually from sony's website after...

After receiving my 170 back from Sony (where the motherboard was replaced), my recovery disks are not working because the computer thinks its a different model, which is very frustrating. To avoid dealing with Sony again, can I just...

No, CompUSA surely didn't do anything to the computer. My point, in response to someone else, was simply that if for some reason CompUSA did something to screw up the overall repair process, and didn't come out and tell me about it,...

i could definitely see compusa screwing it up and then blaming it on sony, but I doubt I could ever find that out. everyone is so shady. the s170 is sweet, but i'm missing that dell service right about now. What I want to know is if...