Re: Windows XP Media Center without Windows XP MCE

Mungo Bulge,

Thanks for your support. Well I am not sure that the disk itself is the
problem, wait, no I am sure, but I think that all of the disks have problems
and New Egg nor Microsoft are giving out the solution of what to do. By
researching the problem and discussing on a forum, I have not found anyone
who has been able to install MCE 2005 by following the directions given when
installing. New Egg certainly didn't. But by reading about everyone else's
problems, and trying several different options of installing disks 1 and 2 at
different times (not when asked by installation), I got it loaded.

New Egg and Microsoft should give proper directions. I am going to try to
write directions of what I did (I think I can duplicate it) complete with
screen prints and post it on PC Guides discussion group.

Again, thanks for your support and the many others on other discussion
groups who tried to help.

smith04


"Mungo Bulge" wrote:

>
> "smith04" <smith04@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:FE843C2B-FFD4-4A2D-A788-BF5C703996DD@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> | HillBillyBuddhist,
> |
> | I actually bought Win XP MCE 2005 from New Egg. Disk 2 did not
> work, I
> | found some discussion groups that led me to believe 'sdisk 2 did not
> work,
> | including an article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base. That article
> said
> | contact Microsoft for a replacement disk and even gave a phone
> number. I
> | contacted Microsoft and they said since I had an OEM edition, I had
> to
> | contact the seller. I contacted New Egg, they gave me an RMA to
> return it.
> | They received it, said they tested it and it worked. They said it
> must have
> | been the optical drives. I had tried it on 4 PCs and 7 optical
> drives,
> | including two brand new that I had just purchased from them. They
> refuse to
> | issue a replacement disk. In the meantime, I installed XP Home and
> it works
> | fine, but doesn't take advantage of the dual core and doesn't have
> the
> | multimedia capabilities I desire.
> |
> | The problem with OEM software is that the manufacturerer takes no
> warranty,
> | only the seller. And there is no retail version of XP MCE 2005. So
> | basically, I got a bad product that no one wants to take
> responsibility for.
> | I didn't want this to get into a discussion of sellers, I want help
> on
> | setting up my PC for multimedia. But since I did get into it,
> anyone who
> | want to support my position with New Egg can boycott them until they
> replace
> | my XP MCE 2005 with a good disk 2 (or a refund).
> |
> | smith04
> |
> | smith04
> | ----------------------
> | Second Assistant to the Third Assistant
> |
>
> I'm with you, I'll boycott Newegg untill they cave under the pressure.
> But seriously, I do feel for your problem. So I'm CC'ing Newegg on
> this post.
>
> <<<< SNIP >>>>
>
>
>
.

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