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Comment on Dell Media Direct won’t Boot Windows – Maybe Bitlocker – Solution by CHARLINE RICH

CHARLINE RICH — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 05:03:59 +0000

Oh my gosh thank you for that blog! I thought my computer had crashed or got hacked into! Thanks again, your a life saver.:)

Comment on Dell Media Direct won’t Boot Windows – Maybe Bitlocker – Solution by Ben Holt

Ben Holt — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 20:02:42 +0000

Apparently you’re in good company, because you’re not the only one that had this issue (including me). Just look at the comments.

–Ben

Comment on Dell Media Direct won’t Boot Windows – Maybe Bitlocker – Solution by tori

tori — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 17:05:16 +0000

I reinstalled the operating system 3 different times each time my 13 year old accidentally hit the MEdia Direct button! What a frickin idiot I am! Thank you for this article!

Comment on Dell Media Direct won’t Boot Windows – Maybe Bitlocker – Solution by Benet

Benet — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 01:58:22 +0000

THANK YOU!!! We thought we had a useless laoptop and were going to have to pay hundreds for a computer geek to “fix” it. You saved us!!

Comment on Dell Media Direct won’t Boot Windows – Maybe Bitlocker – Solution by Ben Holt

Ben Holt — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 19:41:08 +0000

I agree on the internet sharing thing. Not only that, but I’ve had to revisit my bag of tricks that I’ve posted here on several occasions. Glad it worked and thanks for the comment! It means a lot to hear back from people.

–Ben

Comment on Dell Media Direct won’t Boot Windows – Maybe Bitlocker – Solution by Ashley

Ashley — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 13:13:47 +0000

Seriously, thank you from the bottom of my heart. I was about to take my laptop to the Geek Squad at Best Buy. I just got the new iPhone and it was basically a $200 piece of useless equipment because I could not sync to iTunes. You saved me money and a lot of trouble. I really just can’t thank you enough! Gotta love the internet and what it has done for information sharing!!!

Comment on Comcast Responds Part 3 – Broken Internet Connnection After telling Comcast You Have a Router by Ben Holt

Ben Holt — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 15:03:32 +0000

On one hand, I think that Comcast’s institutional knowledge is pitiful – no one knows what someone else has done or can do. It almost seems like a “need to know” basis, rather than empowering the front line.

On the other hand, I’ve never created such a stir, as I did with the comcast post. Comcast responded in force at higher levels trying to fix my problem, once they discovered that I was really frustrated. It seems like they want to change.

On the other hand, Dell still doesn’t care that they’ve lost my firm’s business.

As to the banned IP issue, the evidence points where it does. I don’t know the end answer, as their system configuration is a black box. Even the router in my house.

–Ben

Comment on Comcast Responds Part 3 – Broken Internet Connnection After telling Comcast You Have a Router by RichardS

RichardS — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 04:42:29 +0000

I’ve had the same sort of problem with Comcast in CO twice now – the router cannot get an IP with its native MAC (after working for months and months and months) and Comcast swears up and down that it’s MY problem. Eventually we connect another computer and the connections works fine – as will the router once it clones that computer’s MAC.

Googling for banned macs returns a lot of hits for people stealing cable services – so I wonder if some jerks on our nodes are conflicting with our MAC addresses? Pretty strange coincidence in your case, but maybe it’s only a problem when the modem reboots?

Anyway, regardless of what your contacts say – it’s pretty clear that Comcast *DOES* refuse IPs to certain MACs at certain times. It would be darn nice if the tech support folks could see that instead of us poor users having to troubleshoot it!

Comment on Fix – IPhone app won’t start/launch/open by Dale

Dale — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 00:16:47 +0000

Downloaded one free app. (Dropzap – cool game by the way) Now all my apps are working again. Great tip! Thanks.

Comment on Fix – IPhone app won’t start/launch/open by Ben Holt

Ben Holt — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 21:08:29 +0000

No problem. Glad I could help.