pc versus OS

[pussn]

neighbour bought a demo HP pc with English version XP
installed, and asked me to convert it to French. Alas,
it's not a left mouse click option is it? went to bios to
see if everything was fine, and it was(boot from CD).
while in windows, i'd also noticed that there was quite a
bit of frame ghosting (correct term?) where a window's
prescense is still there tho the window itself isn't.
lots of lagging, couldn't even get to MY COMPUTER.
So reboot the pc...and now it's not recognizing the OS at
all....i get the option to go to bios and that's it. I
can't even get into Recovery setup. the CD driver doesn't
open at all to install the french version of
XP...nothing. There were no recovery diskettes created.
system is new...bought two days ago, so still under
warranty, no probs... but for myself...i have to
know...what can be done?
thanks for all and any info in advance
Pussn

[Amethyst]

pussn wrote:
> neighbour bought a demo HP pc with English version XP
> installed, and asked me to convert it to French. Alas,
> it's not a left mouse click option is it? went to bios to
> see if everything was fine, and it was(boot from CD).
> while in windows, i'd also noticed that there was quite a
> bit of frame ghosting (correct term?) where a window's
> prescense is still there tho the window itself isn't.
> lots of lagging, couldn't even get to MY COMPUTER.
> So reboot the pc...and now it's not recognizing the OS at
> all....i get the option to go to bios and that's it. I
> can't even get into Recovery setup. the CD driver doesn't
> open at all to install the french version of
> XP...nothing. There were no recovery diskettes created.
> system is new...bought two days ago, so still under
> warranty, no probs... but for myself...i have to
> know...what can be done?
> thanks for all and any info in advance
> Pussn

One cannot convert the OS from one language to another. You must purchase
the full version in the language you desire. You have the full French
version do you - because you won't find it on the same CD as the English -
it's one language per disc. You don't need recovery disks - the Windows XP
CD is bootable.

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"pussn" > wrote in message
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> neighbour bought a demo HP pc with English version XP
> installed, and asked me to convert it to French. Alas,
> it's not a left mouse click option is it? went to bios to
> see if everything was fine, and it was(boot from CD).
> while in windows, i'd also noticed that there was quite a
> bit of frame ghosting (correct term?) where a window's
> prescense is still there tho the window itself isn't.
> lots of lagging, couldn't even get to MY COMPUTER.
> So reboot the pc...and now it's not recognizing the OS at
> all....i get the option to go to bios and that's it. I
> can't even get into Recovery setup. the CD driver doesn't
> open at all to install the french version of
> XP...nothing. There were no recovery diskettes created.
> system is new...bought two days ago, so still under
> warranty, no probs... but for myself...i have to
> know...what can be done?
> thanks for all and any info in advance
> Pussn