Hi, The key is embedded in the firmware (uEFI).
The PC may not have DVI, but it might have HDMI, which is basically DVI-D + Audio, and can be passively converted to DVI-D (check out monoprice.com for adapters). Lots of PC (and higher end too) MFG is in Mexico, it's a lot better then it used to be, and less shipping costs then China. The software will be on the machine, and you can create a "recovery" DVD from it... Again standard for Big Name computers, MS does not let them give agnostic install DVDs out... -Harry On 7/17/14, 4:32 PM, DSinc wrote: > A bit of thread continuation about the OB new PC > saga.................. ;) > > OK, OB has rcvd his new Lenovo PC. He is jazzed and is thrashing > around trying to find a VGA > cable to light his Dell monitor. Yes, he used to use a DVI cable, but > that will not happen > until he swaps in his old nVidia GT630 card from the dead PC. His new > Lenovo does not have a > 'default' DVI connector. Odd. > > Worse he tells me he did NOT recieve a Windows 8.1 dvd+product key. > OK, maybe > Lenovo builds PC the same way Dell does and uses some 'master' glop of > Windows > sw. The notes he found tell him that everything he will ever need has > been recorded in a > (please pick a name) partition on his 1TB EM HD-Oh! Please see the > User manual for > recovery procedures, if necessary. Perhaps this how brand new PCs are > now done, but, > I am sadly disappointed; AND, the damn PC came from _Mexico_ to boot. > I'll hope it was just > a Lenovo warehouse, and, not a 'build' center. > > I wait OB's call in the AM when he powers it on for the 1st time. > Best, > Duncan >
