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Old December 24th, 2007, 06:05 PM
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I have a Sony Vaio PCG-K25 (still original specs)... I was surfing the web the other day and for some reason my computer just shut down.. now when i start it up it says "Operating System not found".... Is there a way I can get my computer to work again without spending the 300+ dollars to buy another OS? I would be willing to do linux if possable... I just want to be able to use my computer again.....

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Old December 24th, 2007, 06:10 PM
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well if you have your old OS CD you can install windows from it and you don't need to buy new.if you didn't install it yourself go to the people who did (make sure u have proof that you bought that computer with OS allready installed) you can ask them to give you a cd or to install it for you.

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Old December 24th, 2007, 06:15 PM
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I bought it in Korea 3 years ago when i was stationed there... so im not going to have the CD.... if I use another CD but type in my CD key that is on the computer will that work?
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Old December 24th, 2007, 06:16 PM
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If its the key that you got with comp maybe it would. i suggest you try it.
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Old December 24th, 2007, 07:51 PM
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I also just had this happen (virus) if you go into your bios you will probably find that some settings have been changed and/or disabled.If you just change them back , reboot, update your AV and scan your computer for virus's you may have the problem licked.In my bios I found that the IDE hdd was diwsabled and was also removed from the startup sequence. I hope this helps. Good Luck
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Old December 24th, 2007, 08:11 PM
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You don't have a diskette or CD loaded do you? Just a thought.
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Old December 24th, 2007, 08:53 PM
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no.. no disk or cd in the cpu.... bios is normal and still getting the error....

anyone think linux will work in this situation?
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Old December 25th, 2007, 12:04 AM
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i was wrong... it was the bios... system is booting and am running the AV right now..

thankyou everyone
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Old December 25th, 2007, 07:04 AM
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i was wrong... it was the bios... system is booting and am running the AV right now..
modo AV
thankyou everyone
Dralan, if I were you I would run several different AV programs as this virus repeatedly ate my AVG 7.5 avwil 4.3. It may keep coming up until you run a virus scan during or before it boots.You could maybe try Comodo AV as it's also free and new enough that most viruses won't look for it to disable it.
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Old December 25th, 2007, 03:44 PM
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yes i figured it out to late

http://www.cybertechhelp.com/forums/...d.php?t=172157
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