Thread: Mediabox trashed my N800, won't boot
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2008-01-07 , 15:10
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Originally Posted by DJames1 View Post
I don't recall having to reflash the BIOS on my Windows PC when a bit of beta software went wrong. In fact, I've never even had to re-install Windows to fix a problem - and I've used a lot of beta-quality Windows software since Windows 1.0. I've certainly never been concerned that my hardware might need to be sent in for repair. I think it was a design error for the battery charging management routine not to be in ROM firmware. That's why I'm unhappy with Nokia. I don't know what it was about the Mediabox installation that broke it - does it matter?
You have been lucky... I just had to reinstall Win XP on one computer when end user tried to install Netgear WiFi card drivers from original install CD... of course there was a fatal compatibility issue with the driver and XP SP2 that causes the XP computer to enter into continuous reboot loop. (Not even safe mode or command prompt did work.. Maybe some specific manual editing or registry would have worked but that likely would take more time than reinstall Windows...)

In my experience Windows world is not the ultimate heaven...

(And in case you are asking... I do use Windows computers (XP and Vista) at home and also work PC run on XP... N800 is the only Linux computer I have.)