Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 20:24:46 +0000 From: "Matthew Hanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] L50 w/damaged sound chip or fuse on MB?
>>Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 08:44:47 >>From: "neil barnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >>One thought is that the interrupts and DMAs from the sound card have got >>severely screwed - you could check them in the bios ... << You're a Prince Neil! Went into the L50 BIOS, and found that the sound had somehow been disabled. I just enabled it, and now all's well! I remember seeing an additional entry in Device Manager for "Sound Blaster Compatablity" when the WavJammer driver went in. Obviously I haven't a clue just what caused the BIOS to be altered. But your 'eagle eyes' pointed the way to the problem Neil. Now I can go try and install Mandrake. Two $3.95 UDS 2.5" - 3.5" HDD adaptors arrived from Computer Geeks yesterday, so I'm set. Great price! I'm still curious to see how things will go installing it via a CD-ROM drive from Windows too. So I might try that on the L50 for fun first. I'm also not sure if there are any special issues to installing Mandrake on my 20GB HDD with the overlay software and existing partitions... But I'll deal with that later if I decide to install Mandrake there. Only other thing I'm wondering now is why this 20GB Hitachi HDD is whirring as loud as it is now. Kinda wish it would fail totally so I could send it back and get another nice quiet one. Thanks again for zeroing in on this BIOS problem for me Neil! Matt _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx ************************************************************** 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 **************************************************************
