Need help

[CloudKashimura]

i bought a PC from a yard sale for 200$ cause my PC is slow for dolphin and slow just for everything bought it cause it had a 22' acer screen brought it home and wen i tried to turn it on it says reboot or select proper boot device or insert boot media in selected boot device idk what that is so tried to use my windows xp pro CD cause i don't have windows 7 CD but hardrive wont show for me to install windows on the tower says amd II 1090T 8GB ram 320Gb hardrive Nvidia 550ti whatever that means i saw windows 7 cd key on the back but no model number so can any one help me figure it out if there no fix that's cool i can use the screen on my old PC

[Anti-Ultimate]

Wrong forum but...,

Download a Windows 7 DVD off the web (Whatever version you have), since you have the Key it's not illegal...
Burn it onto a dvd and install it

[Shonumi]

(01-07-2012, 05:53 AM)Anti-Ultimate Wrote: Download a Windows 7 DVD off the web (Whatever version you have), since you have the Key it's not illegal...
Burn it onto a dvd and install it

Whaa... by "off the web," I hope you're not talking about torrents or download site, because it's still illegal, thanks to copyright laws. MS dictates who has "the right to copy" any of their software. The only thing they give you is a "license" to use the OS. You can download Win 7 (as I did, Home Premium with some $30 Student Program) only when you purchase a license and get the OS from MS themselves or a vendor that MS says can distribute it. It doesn't matter if someone holds a license, the act of downloading is an act of copying, which MS hasn't authorized. Sorry for getting a bit pedantic, but that's how these laws work.

Anyway, more pertinent to CloudKashimura's question, are you sure that the hard drive is properly connected inside your machine. Open it up and inspect the cables. It might just be a loose connection, hence your XP CD can't see anything. Also, your drive might be a SATA drive, and your XP CD might not have the necessary drivers to recognize it at all. This problem's pretty well known, so Google around for a few solutions. Another case might be that your drive's got a faulty boot section. There's a commandline program included on the XP CD called fixmbr on Windows that might be able to help.

Though you really ought to double down and buy a new OS. XP's stable, yes, but it's aging more and more everyday. You're only putting off the inevitable upgrade anyway. You'll turn up relatively low prices if you carefully look around the net.

[CloudKashimura]

(01-07-2012, 06:37 AM)Shonumi Wrote:

(01-07-2012, 05:53 AM)Anti-Ultimate Wrote: Download a Windows 7 DVD off the web (Whatever version you have), since you have the Key it's not illegal...
Burn it onto a dvd and install it

Whaa... by "off the web," I hope you're not talking about torrents or download site, because it's still illegal, thanks to copyright laws. MS dictates who has "the right to copy" any of their software. The only thing they give you is a "license" to use the OS. You can download Win 7 (as I did, Home Premium with some $30 Student Program) only when you purchase a license and get the OS from MS themselves or a vendor that MS says can distribute it. It doesn't matter if someone holds a license, the act of downloading is an act of copying, which MS hasn't authorized. Sorry for getting a bit pedantic, but that's how these laws work.

Anyway, more pertinent to CloudKashimura's question, are you sure that the hard drive is properly connected inside your machine. Open it up and inspect the cables. It might just be a loose connection, hence your XP CD can't see anything. Also, your drive might be a SATA drive, and your XP CD might not have the necessary drivers to recognize it at all. This problem's pretty well known, so Google around for a few solutions. Another case might be that your drive's got a faulty boot section. There's a commandline program included on the XP CD called fixmbr on Windows that might be able to help.

Though you really ought to double down and buy a new OS. XP's stable, yes, but it's aging more and more everyday. You're only putting off the inevitable upgrade anyway. You'll turn up relatively low prices if you carefully look around the net.

i been messing with it for hours and searching online i got it to show windows 7 boot logo but it just resets itself over and over wen i tried windows xp cd still wont show hardrive ill go to bestbuy and get a new hardrive and windows 7 cd hope that will work cause i don't got a lot of money to spend on getting it fix

[pwnedatdolphin]

You got that for $200? Dang

[silveruniverse]

(01-07-2012, 05:53 AM)Anti-Ultimate Wrote: Wrong forum but...,

Download a Windows 7 DVD off the web (Whatever version you have), since you have the Key it's not illegal...
Burn it onto a dvd and install it

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/mediatechnologyandtelecoms/8992816/Microsoft-sues-Comet-over-Windows-copies.html

[CloudKashimura]

i got the PC to work and did windows updates and all drivers and such but wen i tried to play The Legend of Zelda - The Wind Waker for GC but i get black screen after the story in the beginning of the game wont let me play using dolphin 3.0-366-dirty

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(01-08-2012, 10:38 AM)CloudKashimura Wrote: i got the PC to work and did windows updates and all drivers and such but wen i tried to play The Legend of Zelda - The Wind Waker for GC but i get black screen after the story in the beginning of the game wont let me play using dolphin 3.0-366-dirty

tried changing resolution and such dolphin just crashes i have no idea what I'm doing wrong any one got any idea what I'm doing wrong ?

[LordVador]

Tried other revisions? Dolphin 3.0 the official release for example?

[Anti-Ultimate]

Don't disable Framelimit and Audio Throttle during the intro...