How do i get my tiny computer back to the factory settings

 

throw it out the bedroom window

they are fooking awefull computers

 

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As much as it hurts to say this

You will have a Tiny System Restore pack that contains a floppy and a cd, windows ME I think is a version 6.8 (not entirely sure, i'll have to check). This will erase everything off your hard disk and reset it back to factory settings.

There is 2 problems with this.

1) if you don't have it, your fucked, unless I've got one indoors.
2) Windows ME is utter cack, and you can't run a 5.9 system restore pack (win 98) as the bios check's the cd so you can only run certain versions

 

Get someone to rebuild it with at least 2k or above on it...

Where abouts are you ?

 

Hello m8 r u the Dave H with the white 3dr who knows Sludge

 

You ever looked inside a Tiny Computer ??

 

Nope.. not got a while 3dr mate... well.. got a white 3dr focus... have got a saph cossie...

Dan... yup.. have worked on many a tiny pc... funnily enough..they seem to be the ones that go wrong the most and brought to me

 

Can't you just reformat by booting up from an OS CD (like Win2k or XP or something) and over write everything? Complete fresh install?

 

Going to pc-world to get windows xp and install that

 

Whoa! Mega expensive! Got any mates with a CD copy of it?

 

Putting windows Xp on a Tiny PC that was built and designed for Windows Xp is suicidel You'll have far more problems then you have now. And for the price of upgrading the machine, you may as well just get one built

 

Dan surely if it was designed and built for XP it should be okay?

Did you mean "designed and built for ME" ???

 

Unfortuently dan is totally correct, I had someone come to me with a TINY PC a while ago on ME and he was so fucked


Had to put it on Win98 SE and get all the drivers myself.


Buy or build a new one. Now.

 

Good thing I never decided to get one of thos Tiny deals then Cos on paper they looked fooking spot on, and hell cheap!!!

That said, the PC we got 5/6/7 years ago or whatever, was an ARIES pc - crappy little thing, but I suppose for the year and money it was good. Came with a 9.5gb ( ) HDD, 128mb ram (later PC World upgrade it to 256) and a 670mhz Celeron chip, ran on Win98SE. I used that for YEARS and most of the time it ran okay. It's only when I started caining it with media downloads and asking it to do a lot of multitasking - graphics, writing discs, web stuff, etc - that it didn't like it. Wiped 98 off it and ran Win2k Pro for a while, and recently cleaned it out again and stuck XP on it - seems to run okay.....

 

Yeah, sorry, that's what I meant

XP will probably have all the drivers, but unless you put at least a gig of ram in there, it just won't cope with it