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Old Mar 1, 2016 | 07:46 AM
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How is it March already, Tuesday!

Where did January and February go?
Old Mar 1, 2016 | 07:54 AM
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morning, today is a year since i switched to subaru/mazda parts. where does the time go?
Old Mar 1, 2016 | 08:00 AM
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Was on chat support with MS for almost 30 mins...

I have a Win 7 Home Premium laptop (this is personal use, not work).
I want to format the HDD and reinstall the same version of Windows.

I go to MS site to download the ISO. I enter my product key, it throws an error. I talk to MS chat support and they tell me I need to talk to Dell to activate the reformatted OS.

I have to call Dell, since the laptop is so old they wont let me chat. I tell him I bought it from Best Buy like 6 years ago and im the only one whos owned it. He transfers ownership from BB to me. Then tells me the warranty is up, yea no ****.

Tells me that I need a warranty to have them reactivate it. Its $200 for "unlimited i ****ed up everything support", no. Its $120 for one time use. NO. I can buy a Win 7 product key for ~$80.

So stupid. Glad I havnt actually formatted my hard drive yet
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Old Mar 1, 2016 | 08:29 AM
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Originally Posted by stupidchicken03
Was on chat support with MS for almost 30 mins...

I have a Win 7 Home Premium laptop (this is personal use, not work).
I want to format the HDD and reinstall the same version of Windows.

I go to MS site to download the ISO. I enter my product key, it throws an error. I talk to MS chat support and they tell me I need to talk to Dell to activate the reformatted OS.

I have to call Dell, since the laptop is so old they wont let me chat. I tell him I bought it from Best Buy like 6 years ago and im the only one whos owned it. He transfers ownership from BB to me. Then tells me the warranty is up, yea no ****.

Tells me that I need a warranty to have them reactivate it. Its $200 for "unlimited i ****ed up everything support", no. Its $120 for one time use. NO. I can buy a Win 7 product key for ~$80.

So stupid. Glad I havnt actually formatted my hard drive yet
The reason you are getting that error is because that key is assigned to a Dell OEM disk.

So... do you want to just upgrade it to Win 7 Pro? I have a Dell Win7 Pro OEM disk we could use and I know you have keys
Old Mar 1, 2016 | 08:39 AM
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Old Mar 1, 2016 | 10:21 AM
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Originally Posted by rupees88
The reason you are getting that error is because that key is assigned to a Dell OEM disk.

So... do you want to just upgrade it to Win 7 Pro? I have a Dell Win7 Pro OEM disk we could use and I know you have keys
Yea that could work haha
Old Mar 1, 2016 | 10:50 AM
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After 4 years with no car radio I finally picked one up. I didn't want anything fancy just something that looked semi OEM.

Old Mar 1, 2016 | 10:52 AM
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Old Mar 1, 2016 | 10:53 AM
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Originally Posted by newyorkreload
After 4 years with no car radio I finally picked one up. I didn't want anything fancy just something that looked semi OEM.

Surprised you didn't look into getting one of the Android/Apple auto ones that are slowly starting to roll out.
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its also 6 years since i joined iclub.
Old Mar 1, 2016 | 10:58 AM
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over 8 for me
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over 8 for me
11 and a couple months for myself.
Old Mar 1, 2016 | 11:17 AM
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Originally Posted by rupees88
Surprised you didn't look into getting one of the Android/Apple auto ones that are slowly starting to roll out.
I don't have cell phone. So i don't need 90% of the features radios have now days. I just want to play a couple burned CD-Rs and to change the display color to match my dash colors.
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