The geniuses over at Geek squad programmed the MRI disk to read time locally, so a simple change in the date on the computer makes an expired disk usable again.
WOW, didn't even think about that, will give it a try after October. I mean they left it in a desktop from a customer that just came from there few days prior. And it was burned MRI DVD copy, that they burned and left. So i took a look, and it's a pretty nice utility all-in one basically. I knew the original was calling home, or something,,, i wasn't updating the virus def at all,,, but at one point ZA firewall popped up an outbound attempt from THERE MRI disk.
They diagnosed this desktop as a bad board,,, when I got it, it booted, posted, was able to get into bio's so knew it was not the board,,,, BUT would not boot completely. ANY diagnostic test would lock up, freeze, AND distorted the screen. so immediately shut down it down, clean heatsink, and fresh layer of artic silver,, but same problem. Reset Bio's and such
swapped memory sticks, same result,,, THEN popped in known working memory... bingo problem fixed.
They were on the right track though, but did not follow thru,,, they must of swapped the memory sticks around, and pulled one at a time etc... for when i got the pc, along with there MRI disk left in drive,,,,, one memory stick left hanging out of dimm,,, AND hard drive was left un-plugged to!
