Awesomemaxx
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I started this project in october 2011 and my grandmother handed me this laptop and said if you can fix it its yours. When i turned it on i saw a multitude of problems. The battery life is 0% at all times and it even says 'plugged in not charging' the date was was set july 2009. The pc performance was terrible and i recived a notification that the version of windows on a computer that was bought from best buy was unathorised and i need to validate the software. I sat at the validation window for about an hour with the green circle still running. so i gave up on that. i updated all the computers software (Browsers applications ect.), fixed the date and time, got rid of McFee (which was set to expire in 2010 and got all glitchy when i reset the date). But the problem with windows still stood and i could not receive updates so instaled a version of ubuntu linix that was compatible with my current hardware. It requred a rebootso i restarted the computer and waited and waited and waited. slept on it and woke up and still saw a black screen. so i restarted it. and every time i started up the computer it was a black screen. so i didn't touch it for months and months and months and finaly for some reason the computer boot up with the option of picking Ubuntu but the problem with windows still stands and now a message saying an unauthorized change has been made to windows and i click for online support and i get a never ending validations screen. The last date that updates were installed on it was June 26 2010.
And now im wondering if there is anything i can do to prove that my version of windows is legit or should i just switch over to linix
And now im wondering if there is anything i can do to prove that my version of windows is legit or should i just switch over to linix
My Computer
System One
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- Manufacturer/Model
- Gateway M-6305
- CPU
- Intel Pentium Dual CpU T2310 @ 1.46 Ghz
- Memory
- ! GB