Hello all. My orange/yellow light stays on all the time, meaning that hard drive won't turn and Windows XP won't "line up" and operate. I would like to blame it on the tech who used a pirate XP Professional setup disk, but more likely the culprit was me. If I take it back to be fixed, the tech is going to charge me another 95 dollars, with no guarantee this won't HAPPEN again.

Please email me with technical cause of constant HD light and how I can "recover" my computer. Thanks.Well you need to GET a legal XP, that's for starts.

Is the hard drive installed correctly and jumpered correctly? How many drives in the machine? You can get free diagnostics from the appropriate drive maker's site, but it is probably in wrong.

Let me SEE if I got this right, OK? You paid someone $95 to do a job which was not ACCURATELY done and you don't want to go back because they don't warranty their WORK and would charge you more. And furthermore someone had a pirate CD and installed it and you don't know who it was?

There is a lot more to this story than you are revealing my friend.