Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2001 08:12:04 +0800 From: Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] My baby is poorly!! - L70
>My libretto 70CT is having a few problems, after having a play inside >(couldn't resist) Hehe ... I know the feeling well >and putting the hard drive in another PC to install Linux NOT a good move unless you partitioned it in the Libby first (and didn't reformat it once it was in the PC) ... remember, if the Libby hibernates it'll overwrite the last 32-odd meg of the hard drive irrespective of how its partitioned. >I can't get past the memory Initialise phase >Is there a command to get into the bios, or has someone else come out of the >other side of this. Generally pulling a laptop apart shouldn't stop it from getting through the BIOS - it should at the very least complain about no OS (if the hard drive was formatted incorrectly). As far as I know Toshibas only store hibernation info on the hard drive (not like early Compaqs which stored the BIOS info there as well). Things that *might* cause this include disturbing the RTC/CMOS battery and/or shorted the power rails whilst you were inside (and dischrged the RTC/CMOS battery) however in my experience with other Toshiba laptops even that won't halt it without telling you why. Alternatively, you may have left a connector slightly loose or out of alignment (dunno about you but that monitor connector on the right hand side looks REALLY flimsy to me). If you have a RAM expansion board inside you may wish to make sure that hasn't been misseated and that the pins on it haven't been bent. You might wish to open it up again and double check all the connectors, make sure they're seated correctly. Also make sure something silly hasn't happened like leaving a screw sitting loose inside it, which could easily short things out (I know it sounds dumb but we've all done things like that). Good luck! - Raymond ************************************************************** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://libretto.basiclink.com/archive - Archives http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/faq.html - FAQ -------TO UNSUBSCRIBE------- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe --------TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST------ Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **************************************************************
