New laptop is screwed.....HELP!

[devinemi83]

Hey guys, I today purchases a Averatec 3200 Laptop. It came with winXP home and I wanted windows 2000 pro on it. I had a ghost resotre disc with my 2000 install on it.


I ran ghost and had it copy itself to the drive. Well all went well till I tried to boot it up. It gave a blue screen that said "Boot Drive Inaccessible" I formatted and tried again from scratch. Failed again, same error. So I gave up on that and pulled out the Restore CD it came with. I launched it up and it got to 14% and gave a screen that said "RECOVERY FAILED". Ever since then it will NOT even boot from its cd at all.


I have no friggin clue what to do now. I know alot about computers and have done at least 200 of these image installs and NEVER had one go this shitty.


Is there anything else I can do, or should I take it back and exchange it?

[vitualis]

Computer stuffed.

?? HDD failure.

?? Mobo failure.

Regards.

[devinemi83]

Yeah see I first thought the HD just got jacked up real bad but I still cant figure out why it wont boot from CD anymore, that should be completely separate from the HD one would think LOL.

I can get into the BIOS and change configuration but it never boots.

[ViRaL1]

Could be that the cd-rom was going to begin with, which might explain the bad restores.

[Faustus]

Yeah that machine is taking a trip back to the store for an exchange if it were me.

Meanwhile who is Averatec ?

[ViRaL1]

Budget laptop mfr. BB and other big name retailers carry them.

[Faustus]

Budget laptop mfr. BB and other big name retailers carry them.

Strange. First I've heard of them. With some of the deal sites showing you how to buy a toshiba or an HP for around $650ish I'm not sure how much more budget a laptop can get.

[devinemi83]

I got it at Samsclub for 899.00, so yeah its a budget model. Its 1.67Ghz, 512 RAM, and has a DVD burner, I was excited to get such a good deal but now I really wonder.


I have never had a machine fail to quick and get this screwed. I grew dependent on the idea that no matter how bad it got, you can always boot from cd and rebuild the harddrive. But now I am freaked it wouldnt even respond to that.

[Faustus]

I got it at Samsclub for 899.00, so yeah its a budget model. Its 1.67Ghz, 512 RAM, and has a DVD burner, I was excited to get such a good deal but now I really wonder.


I have never had a machine fail to quick and get this screwed. I grew dependent on the idea that no matter how bad it got, you can always boot from cd and rebuild the harddrive. But now I am freaked it wouldnt even respond to that.

I'd just go exchange it and give it a second chance. Failure can happen with any hardware. One machine sucking is not nessasarly cause for alarm. Now if the 2nd one sucks also get your money back.

[devinemi83]

Yeah, you're right. I am just pissed off right now over this whole thing. I will exchange it for another of the same model but if that one fails as well, I am done with this brand.

[Faustus]

Yeah, you're right. I am just pissed off right now over this whole thing. I will exchange it for another of the same model but if that one fails as well, I am done with this brand.

Exactly the right idea.