aeromed202
March 10th, 2010, 03:50
This may be well known but some folks may still benefit. My kids ASUS laptop I was posting about for a bit? The one with the Windows 7 Black/Blue Screen of Death problem? Well after finally getting an ASUS person on a phone, and after a bit of tactful resistance to her recommendations to buy their install disks, turns out one can hit F9 on boot up and follow the prompts to re-install Win7 to factory default-using the built-it software. Yes it re-formats with loss of files but it beats trying to get the actual disks from them, which we are STILL trying to buy.
So my kid paid to recover all her files and got her laptop back from the Geeks, who apparently knew nothing of this F9 thing, and wanted $150 to re-install Win7 too. We chose the full HD install as opposed to first partition only with no problems so far.
So for anyone finding themselves in our situation this seemed to be a good fix. And if anyone knows of a patch that fixes the Death Screen problem I'd love to know about it. It can easily happen again. Thanks everyone.
So my kid paid to recover all her files and got her laptop back from the Geeks, who apparently knew nothing of this F9 thing, and wanted $150 to re-install Win7 too. We chose the full HD install as opposed to first partition only with no problems so far.
So for anyone finding themselves in our situation this seemed to be a good fix. And if anyone knows of a patch that fixes the Death Screen problem I'd love to know about it. It can easily happen again. Thanks everyone.