Re: [LIB] Two questions (USB Battery)
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 15:37:26 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] Two questions (USB Battery) --- Meir Oktan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1) I'm using a USB Disk On Key, connected to my 100CT (Running Windows 98 SE) via iNTEX pcmcia USB. The problem is that on the taskbar, I have just the application to stop the pcmcia USB but not the USB Disk On Key. In most cases, I want to disconnect just the USB Disk On Key but leave the pcmcia USB connected and working. Does someone knows how can I disconnect just the USB Disk On Key on Windows 98 SE? I had the same problem with my USB2 PC card and never looked into a solution. It seems that I don't get any complaints from Win98 when I pull a device without 1st stopping the device. Win2000 will complain. My USB2 is dead now so I can't test it. But it seems I could plug and unplug any device plugged into the USB2 PC card without 1st stopping the device manually, and not have any problems. 2) I'm using my Libretto about once a month for a 2-3 hours. When I'm not using it - what is the best way to keep the battery? Is it to disconnect it from the PC? To leave it as is? or maybe to leave the PC connected to the electic charger? I think the concensus around here pretty much has been to just leave the battery in the Lib, and keep the system plugged into AC. I've had an old 50CT plugged in since 1998, and the battery still works fine. Obviously I haven't run the system solely on the battery pack very often. Matt Libretto list info: Libretto list archive #1: http://www.technoir.org/cgi-bin/libretto.cgi Libretto list archive #2: http://www.mail-archive.com/libretto@basiclink.com To unsubscribe: http://www.mail-archive.com/libretto@basiclink.com/msg16212.html Do you Yahoo!? Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail beta. http://new.mail.yahoo.com
[LIB] Server problems - Was: Libretto 110ct QUESTIONS Please
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 11:36:25 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Server problems - Was: Libretto 110ct QUESTIONS Please Accc My two identical posts sent from my Yahoo and Hotmail accounts made it to the list. But they only came back to my Yahoo account. Nothing seems to be making it to or from my Hotmail account. I wonder how many other people are being locked out. The server has been extremely quirky for the past few weeks. I've been in contact with Dan about it in the past month... but have yet to hear back about the note I wrote him a day or two back. Anyone else seeing these problems? --- Matt Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 12:41:40 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] Libretto 110ct QUESTIONS Please Good job Avi! Matt --- Matthew Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 20:39:16 + From: Matthew Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] Libretto 110ct from 32 to 64Mb Good job Avi! Matt Yahoo! Music Unlimited Access over 1 million songs. http://music.yahoo.com/unlimited
RE: [LIB] Libretto 110ct QUESTIONS Please
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 12:41:40 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] Libretto 110ct QUESTIONS Please Good job Avi! Matt Libretto list info: Libretto list archive #1: http://www.technoir.org/cgi-bin/libretto.cgi Libretto list archive #2: http://www.mail-archive.com/libretto@basiclink.com To unsubscribe: http://www.mail-archive.com/libretto@basiclink.com/msg16212.html From: Avi Cohen Stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Avi: Thank you for responding!! So I understand; the 110 comes default with 32Mb of non-removable and an open slot that allows for a maximum of 32Mb more? Correct? Yes. I thought that you had to move the connector that is in the way and cut of a piece of the libretto to fit the memory module?! NO! ;-) Are there instructions on disassembling the 110 to get at the memory, etc? Check here for the file L100mm.pdf (http://downloads.conics.net/old-lib/) on the net. Instructions on how to dissassemble the libretto can be found around page 4-10 to install the memory module. Avi. Want to start your own business? Learn how on Yahoo! Small Business. http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/r-index
Re: [LIB] Please Help Me With New Hard Drive Install
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 00:05:13 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] Please Help Me With New Hard Drive Install --- Raymond [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are you *SURE* your C drive is actually C drive? (I've never had this happen when ghosting but when doing other things, I've had drive IDs stuff up and end up with an E and F drive but no C and D drive and weird things happen). I've seen that a lot myself after hooking up a few different hard drives and memory card readers to my desktop running XP for various reasons. Haven't seen C: affected... tho' I'd guess it'd be possible. 'Disk Management' makes it pretty easy to change any of the drive letter designations that have changed. Matt __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: [LIB] Latest BIOS for L110
Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2005 12:06:55 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] Latest BIOS for L110 --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Where can I get the latest BIOS fot the L110, and instructions on updating?? http://support.toshiba.com/ In the 'Downloads' pages for the L110. Matt __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/
Re: [LIB] W2k Hibernate Stand By conflicts
Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2005 12:20:39 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] W2k Hibernate Stand By conflicts --- Eduardo Duca [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the bios. windows power management is not implemented properly and will mess up the hard drive and give you Even in W2k ? I've always had great success with W2K's hibernation... or at least with whatever the default hibernation function was after W2K installation. I'm pretty sure it was W2Ks. Philip was always writing about just how well W2K's hibernation function worked. Instead of shutting down a W2K installation on a Libby, hibernating, and then waking up from hibernation always goes much faster than a full cold boot to W2K. How I turn off Hibernation and suspend in windows (using again BIOS hibernation with Bios animation) Some websites say BIOS hibernation (16bits) its worse than windows.. Can't help there. Whats diference in BIOS setup: BOOT, HIBERNATION, RESUME modes ? Whats RESET HOLE in right side of librettos do ? The hole provides access to the reboot switch. When the system freezes and won't shut down, press a pen into the hole to activate the reset switch. Sometimes it even works! ;-P (Windows is problematic with this at times) I'm not clear on the BIOS settings for BOOT, HIBERNATION, RESUME. All I know is that hibernation puts the system into a full power down where data for the booted session is written to the hard drive. The system can then wake up to the same condition it was in before hibernating. Resume only writes the data to RAM, and doesn't power the system down totally. Just what those BIOS settings do I'm not sure of. But I'd assume they would do bassically what I outlined above. Matt __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: [LIB] Please Help Me With New Hard Drive Install
Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2005 12:40:43 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] Please Help Me With New Hard Drive Install --- John Liu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I do think the new drive's c: partition was active, as I'd set it that way when initially partitioning the drive. I've had that problem a lot. I'll set a C: partition active, restore a Ghost image to the C: partition, and then find the Libretto can't access the hard drive anymore. Checking, I'll find that the C: partition's active status had been removed somehow in the process. I'm not quite sure how that happens, as I always thought the MBR wouldn't be affected by restoring an image. Go figure... But yeah... check to make sure your C: partition is set active. Matt __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: [LIB] Connecting Lib PC via USB?
Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 14:01:55 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] Connecting Lib PC via USB? --- David Chien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, just the parallel cable method is supported under DCC. USB cables are not, and require the installation of the USB network driver for the USB Network cable. After that, most of these cables usually show up like any other ethernet card in Network Connections. Huh... I may have missed something in this thread David. Are you talking about standard USB 1.1 cables? I saw nothing in the installation procedures or documentation for the 4 different USB 2.0 cables and associated drivers and software I've tried that indicated that the cable would be recognized in Windows Network Connections. They all came with their own Laplink-link software for transferring data. But I don't think I ever looked into the Network Connections properties after I installed them to see if their setup had put anything there. Now that I'm back to W98 after loosing W2K support from my friend 110 MB, I removed the USB 2.0 drivers and software from my systems, as the cable I have doesn't support W98. I'm hoping I can return what I have in exchange for one of the models that support W98. Matt __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - You care about security. So do we. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail
Re: [LIB] Connecting Lib PC via USB?
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 11:32:06 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] Connecting Lib PC via USB? --- John Niemi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Assuming the desktop PC and the Libretto have USB ports, would connecting these two via USB be a good choice? Are there light programs available to connect computers via USB, probably an app that could also synchronize some files or databases like calendar, contacts etc.? I've found the best way to connect a Lib to a PC and get the fastest transfer rate is to get a USB 2.0 card for each, and use a special USB 2.0 transfer cable. For transferring a large amount of files like a gigabyte of more of MP3s, they go about 5 times faster. The max of 10x is not possible because of the intrinsic sluggishness of the old CPUs MBs the Libbys use. Here's one of many available. I found 4 different ones locally: http://www.meritline.com/usb-2-network-cable-usb-to-usb.html (That URL took ages ot load for my 100 to load) Matt __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/
Re: [LIB] What OS('s) to install? Dual-boot also an option?
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 11:40:23 -0800 (PST)
From: Matt Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [LIB] What OS('s) to install? Dual-boot also an option?
--- Laszlo Szalai [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 16:15:21 +0100
From: Laszlo Szalai [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [LIB] What OS('s) to install? Dual-boot also an option?
I think Windows 2000 is a good choice I've tried XP but it was slow on
my 110CT with 64 MB ram.
I can recommend W2K. Fast, Stable you can play Quake too ;-)
I'll second that. W2K has worked well for a lot of Libretto owners. David
Chien (Adorable Libretto) swears by a proper installation of Win98SE as
being stable for him. But hard as I've tried to get a good installation of
it on my Librettos, the various pieces of MP3 software I use a lot
consistently gets W98 to crash. I had a lot better success with stability
in W2K, though I still managed to get it to crash from time to time before
I got a few wrinkles ironed out here and there.
Matt
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 3/23/2005 4:04:11 PM
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 17:02:44 +0200
From: John Niemi [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: What OS('s) to install? Dual-boot also an option?
I have gone through pretty much every Windows version from 3.1 up to
XP, on my
desktop machines, but now I'd like to know which ones are the best for
a
Libretto with the following specs;
233 Mhz cpu, 64Mb RAM (would upgrade to 96 but it's sooo expensive,
64Mb module
costs 110), HD 2.1 gigs but will be upped to a 40-80 gig HD
pretty
soon.
OS cost is not an issue as the OS's will be installed legally at my
workplace
with the university's license.
Main uses will be;
-Excel
-Word
-Old DOS/Win games
-Internet connection via wlan and lan
-Connecting to numerous other windows machines via lan or USB for data
transfer
Should I install a dual boot, like Win98 for games and internet and
then f.ex.
NT4.0 WITHOUT network support for stable and virus/spyware free Excel
and Word
use.
I'm mainly conserned with spyware and viruses that slow up the computer
as well
as various other c*ap collecting to the registry etc. via Internet
usage.
PS. Are older versions of Word Excel faster/less CPU intensive? I
only need
basic word processing and some simple statistical plotting so maybe
installing
older version of those would also be a good idea?
-John
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Re: [LIB] Slightly OT - BIOS Upgrade Fuji B142 Problem
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 13:23:39 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] Slightly OT - BIOS Upgrade Fuji B142 Problem At this point I'd contact the manufacturer of the motherboard and describe the problem. Is there any possibility that you're using the wrong BIOS update? If you are in fact using the correct BIOS update, the manufacturer may have released an update/fix for the problem you're having. Matt --- Mark Srebnik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the advice, Matt! Just tried this but no go Got same PhoenixPhlash Error Message: File Close failed on BIOS.ROM I do get about 4 or five beeps when it is finishing process I also forgot to mention that I took out the extra RAM that I put in too, just in case that makes a difference...but it hasn't seemed to... Any other ideas? Thanks, Mark on 3/20/05 10:48 PM, Matt Hanson at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 22:48:08 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] Slightly OT - BIOS Upgrade Fuji B142 Problem Mark... Have you tried making a very basic boot floopy with just the 3-4 necessary MS-DOS boot files, and trying the BIOS ugrade from that? Method one: With blank unformatted FD in drive, type 'sys A:' (without quotes) from a MS-DOS window. Method two: Right-click on A: drive in My Computer, select 'Format', and then choose 'Copy system files only'. Maybe you're still having problems with the memory managers on the full Windows boot FD even after disabling them. Matt --- Mark Srebnik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Even though this is not about my Libby 110CThope one of the great minds on this list can please advise anyway... ;-) Trying to upgrade the BIOS on my ol' Fujitsu B142 from what's installed now (v1.02) to the newest version I found on the Korean Fujitsu support webpage, v1.03. From what I understand this newer BIOS will allow me to upgrade OS to WinXP if I want. There's also a new touchscreen driver upgrade to go with it. So far, no go Here's what's happened so far... 1) Put BIOS files on a floppy 2) Booted up from Win98 boot floppy into Safe Mode, DOS prompt 3) At prompt, typed: phlash platform.bin Got PhoenixPhlash Error Message: Cannot flash when memory managers (e.g. HIMEM) are present 4) Somehow disabled memory managers on boot disk and tried again. Got PhoenixPhlash Error Message: File Close failed on BIOS.ROM Any suggestions?? Thanks, Mark Silicone Valley Libretterati 110CT/64MB/60GB 7200/WinXPP/AmigoLinux2.0 __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/
RE: [LIB] Alas, L100 Wasn't Reliable At 266MHz
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 13:31:58 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] Alas, L100 Wasn't Reliable At 266MHz --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John, can you describe the procedure for putting in the thermal grease? I updated my L100 to 233 MHz, but couldn't figure out how to remove the heat spreader get to the top of the CPU to add the grease. Isn't that procedure in the manual Dick? I've done that a few times at this point working on my 110 MB problem. It's just a matter of removing 7 screws. 4 that attach the PCMCIA slot cover (other side of MB from CPU) along with holding the heatsink down. And then 3 more, 2 in the middle of the MB and 1 at the opposite end of the MB by the lid switch. As for the amount of grease, I never got a good answer myself. Supposedly it's just enough to spread a thin layer across the surface of the CPU. But I never got a definition of a thin layer. Matt __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: [LIB] Swap Hard Drives Between 2 Different Manufacturer Laptops - OK
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 21:45:17 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] Swap Hard Drives Between 2 Different Manufacturer Laptops - OK --- Mark Srebnik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I want to swap hard drives in my laptops (one is Toshiba and one is Fujitsu) should I A) Bite the bullet and format them and reinstall OS fresh on each drive. Reinstall drivers, apps. B) Just swap drives and install drivers as needed. I assume best approach is Option 'A' right? Or would Option 'B' be OK and not cause problems? I've put drives from one system into another totally different system before and have had limited success. If it's a Windows OS on the drive, and the hardware in the system is plug play, Windows will find the new hardware, usually ask for the OS installation CD, and then set up what it can. I've been left with some things working, and others not working that need drivers installed manually. Swapping drives between my 100 motherboard and the 110 MB usually seemed to go well. Tho' those drives weren't ever ones I left in a system on a long term basis. Starting over with installing the OS on a reformatted drive is always the best way to go though. You don't inherit old problems, or risk conflicts between the old OS installation and the new system you put the drive into. Matt __ Do you Yahoo!? Make Yahoo! your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs
Re: [LIB] Better Cooling By Drilling Holes? ( Was: Alas, L100 Wasn't Reliable At 266MHz)
Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 22:39:32 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] Better Cooling By Drilling Holes? ( Was: Alas, L100 Wasn't Reliable At 266MHz) John... I had the same problem when I O/Ced my 100. No matter how I tried to tweak the setup with things like reapplying heatsink grease, moving my hot Xircom dialup/ethernet combo card down to the EPR et al, I just couldn't keep the system from experiencing all kinds of overheating problems. Every CPU is totally different in their specs from the next one coming right out of production, so some O/C well, and others not. That said, seems a lot of people who experiences overheating problems with their 100 MBs at 266 have had success clocking back to 233... something I'm considering since my 110 MB died... but I'm not good at micro soldering/sugery. On the topic of cooling the system down... I recall someone somewhere along the way pointing out that a number of years back there used to be PC card fans made specifically to cool down notebooks. I never explored that avenue of possibility very far for some reason. Maybe I just couldn't find any. Matt --- John Liu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John, my goal is a Lib that runs reliably without the keyboard lifted up or other unusual measures, in pretty much all ambient temperature and workload conditions. This makes me wonder, though - suppose one drilled many holes in the metal shield that separates the motherboard from the keyboard? Perhaps this would improve cooling, while the only negative would be a pleasant warmth at the fingertips? Or would the heat damage the keyboard? Along the same lines, suppose one drilled holes in the underside of the Lib's lower case. Some of the holes would be directly underneath the hard drive, which seems like not a bad thing for cooling. Otherwise would be directly under the PCMCIA cards, which might or might not be useful for cooling. Some others would be between the drive and PCMCIA, and could allow air to flow directly up to the motherboard. Has anyone tried this? On Mar 20, 2005, at 4:10 AM, John Musielewicz wrote: Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 04:08:47 -0800 (PST) From: John Musielewicz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] Alas, L100 Wasn't Reliable At 266MHz You are correct in that you need to use thermal grease. You also need to lift the keyboard up to let air flow a little better. Did you make sure to replace the copper conducter when you took it out? __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/
Re: [LIB] Slightly OT - BIOS Upgrade Fuji B142 Problem
Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 22:48:08 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] Slightly OT - BIOS Upgrade Fuji B142 Problem Mark... Have you tried making a very basic boot floopy with just the 3-4 necessary MS-DOS boot files, and trying the BIOS ugrade from that? Method one: With blank unformatted FD in drive, type 'sys A:' (without quotes) from a MS-DOS window. Method two: Right-click on A: drive in My Computer, select 'Format', and then choose 'Copy system files only'. Maybe you're still having problems with the memory managers on the full Windows boot FD even after disabling them. Matt --- Mark Srebnik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Even though this is not about my Libby 110CThope one of the great minds on this list can please advise anyway... ;-) Trying to upgrade the BIOS on my ol' Fujitsu B142 from what's installed now (v1.02) to the newest version I found on the Korean Fujitsu support webpage, v1.03. From what I understand this newer BIOS will allow me to upgrade OS to WinXP if I want. There's also a new touchscreen driver upgrade to go with it. So far, no go Here's what's happened so far... 1) Put BIOS files on a floppy 2) Booted up from Win98 boot floppy into Safe Mode, DOS prompt 3) At prompt, typed: phlash platform.bin Got PhoenixPhlash Error Message: Cannot flash when memory managers (e.g. HIMEM) are present 4) Somehow disabled memory managers on boot disk and tried again. Got PhoenixPhlash Error Message: File Close failed on BIOS.ROM Any suggestions?? Thanks, Mark Silicone Valley Libretterati 110CT/64MB/60GB 7200/WinXPP/AmigoLinux2.0 __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/
Re: [LIB] buy a new Batt ?
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 14:07:45 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] buy a new Batt ? --- Eduardo Duca [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 18:27:13 -0300 From: Eduardo Duca [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] buy a new Batt ? The mostly dealers in ebay does not sell to out of America or Europe. Do you know a virtual store thats sell its online ? thx []s Duca Have you tried the UK website for EBay?: www.ebay.co.uk/ Matt __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: [LIB] I subscribed to both modes...
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 21:42:32 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] I subscribed to both modes... Hmmm... don't see this on Dan's list website anymore: - Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: libretto@basiclink.com - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe - Be sure not to put any spaces in: cmd:unsubscribe Matt --- John Niemi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 05:48:54 +0200 From: John Niemi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: I subscribed to both modes... How can I unsubscribe? Not that I want to leave the group after one day of activity but I subscribed first to the digest mode and then thought that I'd subscribe to the standard format, but now I get both the digest AND all the mails separately. I'd prefer the digest format for now. So what should I do? -John __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/
RE: [LIB] Dead L110
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 19:29:48 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] Dead L110 Okay... Ive done the voltage tests on the parallel port connector pins on the SPR (Standard Port Replicator) with the 110 system connected, booted, and the space bar pressed. Heres the DB-25 Connector Pin #s and voltages on the SPR with 110 connected (see legend below): 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 B B B B C C C C C B C B A 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 B D B A I'm pretty sure that the layout of the numbered pins (sockets) above should correspond to the pin numbering for the DB-25 (female, right?) connector on the SPR. The numbering would be a mirror image for the pins on a printer cable connector, with pins 1-13 on the top row reading from 1 on the left, to 13 on the right instead of the opposite order as Ive laid it out above for the connector on the SPR. Legend: A = -4.44vdc B = -4.28vdc C = -0.20vdc D = -0.04vdc All others are grounded and read: 0vdc The pins involved in the Printer Port LED test are 2-9. So if the voltage B corresponds to a LED being 'on', and C to 'off', pins 2-9 would read in binary from left to right as instructed in the manual as: 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 Which would calculate to 5 in decimal and also 05h hexadecimal. Table 2-3 Printer port LED boot mode status in the manual says this means a problem with CMOS check and initialization Enabling cache ROM to RAM copy The resolution for the issue for this, and the following error codes, is to replace the motherboard as explained in Procedure 5 under the same section of the manual: B0h, B2h, B3h, 00h, 01h, 05h, 06h, 03h, 04h, 02h, 71h, 07h, 73h, 74h, 72h, 76h, 79h, 77h, 78h, 81h, 82h, 7Bh, 7Ch, 7Ah, 08h, 09h, 0Dh, 19h, 1Fh, 20h, 21h, 25h, 30h, 40h, 41h, 42h, 70h, 80h, A0h, C0h, A6h, FEh Okay... that behind me, I'm pretty sure there's nothing I can do at this point to resurrect the MB, even though I'm not totally convinced that this was a valid test. I say that because pressing the space bar after powering up the system made no difference in the voltages measured. So I don't know for sure that the system was responding to being powered up without the Printer Port LED test module connected in the same manner as it would have with the module connected. Not having a system with the same booting problem, I have no way to A/B the test. So if anyone else with a similar problem with their system booting performs this test, Id like to hear back from them on what their test results are. I did try the test both with AC connected and battery inserted, and then again with only the battery powering the system (didn't try AC only). But I found no difference in voltages each time, and then with or without pressing the space bar for each test. But all the voltages on all of the pins remained the same no matter how I tested the system. And oh... After having let the 110 MB sit unconnected to any power for 4-5 days now, I wasn't able to get the system to either boot, to get into BIOS via ESC, or to get a BIOS update to load via the F12 method (tho' I can swap MBs in under 10 minutes now :-D). Maybe when the screen for the BIOS settings went from white to blue to red lettering, and then to a blank screen of white and black stripes (gray) last week, the MB may have given up its last vestiges of life for good. Matt sigh __ Do you Yahoo!? Make Yahoo! your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs
Re: [LIB] System troubleshooting - Was: Is it okay to reload
Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2005 13:00:56 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] System troubleshooting - Was: Is it okay to reload Hey Raymond, --- Raymond [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now I doubt you'd have the suitable dongle but that's OK ... as I recall, that dongle didn't do anything else to signal the motherboard (you need to hold down space to tell the motherboard you have the dongle connected so it wouldn't make sense if it did). If that's the case, simply measure the voltages between ground and pins 2 through 9 and read it off that way (it's slow but it should work). Hmmm... sounds good. But do you think the system will output those voltages without having pressed the space bar with the dongle attached to signal the mother board to start the dongle test? Do you know which pin to measure the voltage of pins 2 - 9 against Raymond? 2 - 9 are labeled +PD0 - +PD9 whatever that stands for... I assume something like positive dongle pin 0 - 9, or something like that. In the manual, the pins on the other side of the connecter 1, + 10 - 17 are labeled: 1 -STROBE 10 -ACK (my sentiments exactly ;-P) 11 +BUSY 12 +PE 13 +SELECT 14 -AUTOFD 15 -ERROR 16 -PINIT 17 -SLIN Having said that, I assume you've also checked the blink codes on the power light (if any)? Nothing binks at all Raymond. The system powers up, and with battery and AC adapter connected, the 1st, 3rd and 4th LED from the left light. The only thing that causes a difference in what the LEDs do is putting my little 750MB HDD in and starting the system up. Doing that, the HDD LED 2nd from the left comes on momentarily, and then turns off. Xin suggested holding the reset button in after powering up to see if it affected anything. But that does nothing with the 2.5GB 40GB HDD, and only causes the HDD LED to come on and then immediately go off with the 750 HDD installed. Matt __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/
Re: [LIB] System troubleshooting - Was: Is it okay to reload
Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2005 15:19:44 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] System troubleshooting - Was: Is it okay to reload --- Raymond [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, that's the point ... you hold down spacebar to tell the system to output the diagnostic codes (presumably so normally, if you boot with a printer attached, the printer doesn't go crazy). You don't have the dongle attached now but hold the spacebar down anyway and hopefully the system board will behave as if the dongle was attached. Okay... Do you know which pin to measure the voltage of pins 2 - 9 against Raymond? Simply measure pins 2-9 against ground (..any bare metal on the outside of the case, such as the printer port shell) Doh! That just hit me a while ago. I was coming online to point out the obvious to my own post. Ouch! ... well let us know how the parallel port status test goes! Okay... thanks muchly for the tips Raymond. I'll give it a go tho' I think I'm going to wait a few more days to do the test. I still haven't come up for any explaination on why it happens... but for some reason if I just let the #*%! MB sit for a few days unconnected to any power source, sometimes it ends up booting the next time I power it on. I'm going to try the F12 approach of flashing the BIOS if I can get the system to respond on the next 1st boot. Matt __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - now with 250MB free storage. Learn more. http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250
[LIB] System troubleshooting - Was: Is it okay to reload current BIOS version?
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 12:36:55 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: System troubleshooting - Was: Is it okay to reload current BIOS version? --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Esc key does nothing! Yes I have read through some, nothing helps. I have a strong feeling it is due to the save to disk when you improperly shutdown. save to disk? By this I'm guessing you mean that you were putting the system into standby, or hibernation where the data for the state of the booted system is written to the hard drive. That allowing the system to wake up in the same state it was previously. Yes? I think of save to disk as meaning saving files from the Internet to the hard drive, but assume this isn't what you're referring to. The reason I say this is because I think all this started when the system locked up and I unplugged it and removed the battery. If you are referring to putting the system into standby or hibernation, the Libretto's usually display a message saying something like Can't restore from hibernated state, press any key to boot normally. Or something like that. Here's a list of things I've tried with my 110 system I've tried: 1. Reassembling the system and checking all connections 2. Putting the system in the EPR connected to an external monitor 3. Checking the 3 fuses on the MB shows continuity for each 4. Booting it with nothing but the AC adapter (no battery, HDD or FDD) 5. Booting with nothing but the battery 6. Booting with just the FDD AC 7. Booting with FDD battery 8. Reseating the 32MB memory upgrade and display cable 9. Reseating all connections in the lid 10. Booting without the expansion memory 11. Booting with an old 750MB HDD And here's 4 suggestions that Dr. Xin suggested to me the other night: 1. Hold the reset button long enough when power on it. 2. If no hard drive connected or hard drive is broken, Libretto will keep blank. 3. If you can get the BIOS prompt, why actually perform a BIOS upgrading? 4. Make a parallel tester (the manual tells you how to make one). Then it'll tell you the error and you'll know if it's dead His suggestion #2 seems to be inferring that that Librettos won't boot without a hard drive installed. But I'm pretty sure it will, or should boot if the floppy drive is connected and has a bootable disk in it. #4 is a tough one for me. I've read through the service manual, and it seems that you need a program called a DIAGNOSTICS PROGRAM program in order to run any tests with that parallel tester he's talking about. Appendix F shows the wiring diagram for making the Parallel Port Wraparound Connector. It's a bit confusing to me, but I guess you just wire the numbered pins together. The information next to the pins doesn't make any sense to me. The System Board Troubleshooting section of the manual described the process of troubleshooting the motherboard. Note that the chapters and pages for chapter 2 in the manual are mixed up. There are two chapter ones. It's easiest to find the real chapter 2 and its table of contents by just searching for the term System Board Troubleshooting. I think if you just substitute a 2 for a 1 in all of the chapter references, 1-1 = 2-1, 1-2 = 2-1, 1-3 = 2-3, etc... things make more sense. So though the main index shows the system board troubleshooting in 2.4 System Board Troubleshooting, when you actually get to the chapter, it's labeled 1.4 System Board Troubleshooting. However I can only find one reference to a Parallel Port Wraparound Connector (actually referred to as a Printer port wraparound connector elsewhere) in the System Board Troubleshooting section as Xin inferred. That's on page 1-19, (supposed to be 2-19) in the chart, Table 2-3 Printer port LED boot mode status (2/5). And that's a section of chapter 2 entitled, Procedure 2 - Printer Port LED Check on Boot Mode where a device called a Printer Port LED is required to run the tests. I don't suppose there's anyone on this list knows anything about these things, is there? I'll have to send some of this to Xin. Matt __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/
Re: [LIB] System troubleshooting - Was: Is it okay to reload current BIOS version?
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 18:00:20 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] System troubleshooting - Was: Is it okay to reload current BIOS version? --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: Matt Hanson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Appendix F shows the wiring diagram for making the Parallel Port Wraparound Connector... I guess you just wire the numbered pins together. Matt, you are correct - just wire the numbered pins together. The pins on the left hand sides are the Port pins (PD 0-8) and the pins on the right are the signal names. So, what you are doing is sending those signals on the right to the ports on the left. Okay... But the problem is that I see nothing in the manual about using it exclusively to troubleshoot the motherboard. Seems like you 1st need the 'Printer port LED' to begin the process. And there's no diagram for building one in the manual. --- Alistair Cockeram [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If all else fails Matt, get a second mainboard from ebay. I picked one up when the Libretto I bought off ebay kept cutting out and shutting itself down. Well... that's where I got this board, and I had problems with it not booting off and on right from the beginning. I paid $100 for it as an as is purchase with no further warranty. So yeah, another used one on EBay is a possiblilty. But I'm thinking maybe I ought not risk it again, and instead buy a complete 110CT system that has been confirmed as working well for a reasonable amount of time before putting it on EBay. Did the board you bought come with any kind of warranty Alistair? Matt __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: [LIB] First LED on - NO Boot
Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 13:29:37 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] First LED on - NO Boot Try reading through the recent threads on similar problems posted to the list recently: http://www.mail-archive.com/libretto@basiclink.com/msg15021.html http://www.mail-archive.com/libretto@basiclink.com/msg15027.html http://www.mail-archive.com/libretto@basiclink.com/msg15050.html http://www.mail-archive.com/libretto@basiclink.com/msg15054.html The problem could be: * Loose internal connections * Wrong BIOS setting (Does holding down ESC at boot get to the settings?) * Bad screen (can you see light from the bulb in a dark room?) Hmmm there must be more Ive forgotten, but start there. As for the manual... again, the one for the 100/110 models is here: http://downloads.conics.net/old-lib/L100mm.pdf Matt --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a Lib 110ct w/Win98 latest updates and w/docking station Just yesterday it began to give me trouble booting...I would have to remove power and battery, then it would boot, not anymore. All I get now is the first led on (minuture PC with on on it, but it will not boot. Now it does not matter if I remove battery and or power, it will not boot. All I hear is a few seconds of hard drive activity, and the first led goes on and stays on, but it will not boot. Thanks for any help!! JP Note: Anyone have the service manual for the 110? __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
RE: [LIB] Dead L110
Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 13:35:08 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] Dead L110 --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matt, maybe it is the hard drive itself. Can you boot the L110 MB with the Hard drive from the L100? Do you have another hard drive to test? The drive works fine with the 100 MB installed. So I don't think it's the problem. But with the advent of the PC, I through out the book on what I used to call 'logic'. ;-P I doubt it would be capacitors. Todays capacitors are very low leakage and you would be hearing of all kinds of electronic devices failing if this were the case. You just do not hear this anymore. Hmmm yeah... you're right there. Another thought - the battery. That acts like a huge capacitor but is extremely leaky. Can you try another battery? I don't have another battery, but have tried it on AC without the battery inserted. But that's noo good either. So I wonder what this wait and it will work thing is all about. Bad connection subject to shock I guess?? Matt __ Celebrate Yahoo!'s 10th Birthday! Yahoo! Netrospective: 100 Moments of the Web http://birthday.yahoo.com/netrospective/
RE: [LIB] Dead L110
Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 14:09:08 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] Dead L110 AAaakk It IS a bios problem... but it's EZ-Drive/Bios come back to haunt me! Seems I can't read files properly without it... and now it wants to act up and keep my system from booting when it feels like it. I remembered that I would have this problem when I 1st installed this 110 MB. I'd do something with the HDD in the Libretto, put the drive in the desktop to tweak something, put it back in the Libretto, and it seemed dead. To get things set up so that I can read files properly, I had to install EZ-Drive (we never found a way around my file error problems). But then if I wanted to partition safely, I'd remove EZ-Drive, and do partitioning in the desktop that fully supports Int13 extensions. I'd then put the HDD back in the Libretto, and it wouldn't boot. So at that point I'd put it back in the desktop and install EZ-Drive from there, and then it'd boot fine in the Libby. So I just put the HDD in the desktop, removed EZ-Drive, put it back in the Libretto, and it booted! Got me I need some sunshine Matt ... at least the 110 is back in commission. Anyone using EZ-Drive on 8GB HDDs with similar, unsolved booting problems may want to try this themselves. __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
RE: [LIB] Dead L110
Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 15:02:20 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] Dead L110 I spoke/wrote too soon Dick. I don't know what's going on now. The system didn't want to boot consistantly after I though got things sorted out. Now it doesn't boot no matter what processes I repeat to try setting things up. It seems the CMOS/RTC battery may be involved too. When the system 1st booted, I got that boot prompt about RTC and going into settings that happens after you've disconnected and reconnected the RTC battery. But then I went back to boot the system again, and I got the same RTC prompt. The system booted fine again though after going into settings, saving them and exiting. But when I shut things down, I lifted the keyboard and found I had forgotten to connect the battery somewhere along the way. Oh! I disconnected it last night thinking I'd let as much time pass as possible to clear BIOS/CMOS settings. (I wonder if that points to something significant.) So I went ahead and reconnected it thinking my boot problems were behind me, and that uninstalling and reinstalling EZ-Drive fixed the problem. But then the system failed to boot again. I went back and uninstalled EZ-Drive, put the HDD back in the Libby, and nothing. I pulled the RTC battery plug, let it sit, and tried booting, and nothing. Tried serveral more combinations of everything I've described, but I'm back to where it won't boot no matter what I do. Bad connection? Software/hardware conflict between the Libretto CMOS/BIOS and EZ-Drive? Something with the RTC battery in the mix? The battery can't be low or dying can it? It worked fine for the past week with the 100 MB installed. So I've tossed this message back to the RE: [LIB] Dead L110 thread, and am back to square one. Matt --- From Dick: So, it was the hard drive. Glad to hear it was finally fixed. Dick -Original Message- From: Matt Hanson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] Dead L110 AAaakk It IS a bios problem... but it's EZ-Drive/Bios come back to haunt me! Seems I can't read files properly without it... and now it wants to act up and keep my system from booting when it feels like it. I remembered that I would have this problem when I 1st installed this 110 MB. I'd do something with the HDD in the Libretto, put the drive in the desktop to tweak something, put it back in the Libretto, and it seemed dead. To get things set up so that I can read files properly, I had to install EZ-Drive (we never found a way around my file error problems). But then if I wanted to partition safely, I'd remove EZ-Drive, and do partitioning in the desktop that fully supports Int13 extensions. I'd then put the HDD back in the Libretto, and it wouldn't boot. So at that point I'd put it back in the desktop and install EZ-Drive from there, and then it'd boot fine in the Libby. So I just put the HDD in the desktop, removed EZ-Drive, put it back in the Libretto, and it booted! Got me I need some sunshine Matt ... at least the 110 is back in commission. Anyone using EZ-Drive on 8GB HDDs with similar, unsolved booting problems may want to try this themselves. --- Matt Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 14:09:08 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] Dead L110 AAaakk It IS a bios problem... but it's EZ-Drive/Bios come back to haunt me! Seems I can't read files properly without it... and now it wants to act up and keep my system from booting when it feels like it. I remembered that I would have this problem when I 1st installed this 110 MB. I'd do something with the HDD in the Libretto, put the drive in the desktop to tweak something, put it back in the Libretto, and it seemed dead. To get things set up so that I can read files properly, I had to install EZ-Drive (we never found a way around my file error problems). But then if I wanted to partition safely, I'd remove EZ-Drive, and do partitioning in the desktop that fully supports Int13 extensions. I'd then put the HDD back in the Libretto, and it wouldn't boot. So at that point I'd put it back in the desktop and install EZ-Drive from there, and then it'd boot fine in the Libby. So I just put the HDD in the desktop, removed EZ-Drive, put it back in the Libretto, and it booted! Got me I need some sunshine Matt ... at least the 110 is back in commission. Anyone using EZ-Drive on 8GB HDDs with similar, unsolved booting problems may want to try this themselves. __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
[LIB] Is it okay to reload current BIOS version?
Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 18:14:09 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Is it okay to reload current BIOS version? It seems the only thing I can get my 110 system to do at this point is to hold the F12 key down with only the floppy drive in the system (i.e. no hard drive), and get the system to respond saying that it's ready to load BIOS files. I'm not sure which BIOS version is loaded at this point. The latest version loaded may or may not be loaded now, I really don't know. Does anyone know if it's okay to reload the existing BIOS version on top of itself? Meanwhile I'll go back and search archives a bit more. Thanks, Matt __ Do you Yahoo!? Make Yahoo! your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs
Re: [LIB] Dead LIB Solved!?!
Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2005 01:26:54 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] Dead LIB Solved!?! --- Brian Mueller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So I just received a 100 off eBay. In the pictures, it showed the red Toshiba BIOS. When I first started it, I got nothing (the LEDs on like everyone has been talking about). So, I hooked up the docking bar and hooked it up to an external screen. I turned it on, got video on the screen, went into the BIOS, and changed the display to Simultaneous and turned LCD stretch on. Reboot, VOILA! it works! Disconnect docking bar, and it still works. May not be what you are having problems with, but my symptoms were the same and this solved it. Hopefully this may help... Huh... Thanks for that Brian. Seems Neil was on to something there. I'll have a go at it myself. Matt __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
[LIB] Libretto service manuals - Conics Adorable Libretto
Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2005 13:27:30 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Libretto service manuals - Conics Adorable Libretto --- Paul Bristow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm also a long-time list subscriber and L100CT owner. I too would dearly love a copy of the service manual if you could possibly find the time to send it :-) I hope you don't get too many emails asking for this :-) No worries Paul... it looks like Brett has both 50/70 and 100/110 manuals permanently posted for download on his Conics website, also a great source of Japanese and 'for Japan-only' products. You and Albert can download copies from his site here: http://downloads.conics.net/old-lib Or download the files directly here: http://downloads.conics.net/old-lib/l5070mm.zip http://downloads.conics.net/old-lib/L100mm.pdf David do you have links to these on the Adorable Libretto Toshiba website? I started to look from the URL you gave for the Toshiba USA wesbite. But that now takes me to the standard Toshiba support/download pages where I'm never very good at finding a lot of things. I've actually never found them there in the past. Brett's links have been stable for some time now. Matt __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
RE: [LIB] Dead L110 - now working!
Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2005 14:17:18 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] Dead L110 - now working! --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Everyone, my L100 is now working fine. Last night I followed the procedures in section 4 of the manual and took everything apart again. Great news Dick. I was guessing your problems were due to some reassembly error. I'm not as hopeful for my MB, as I disassembly/reassembly hadn't been in the equation for a good 4-5 weeks when it suddenly failed to boot one morning (after working fine all the night before too I'll add) While I had the MB (mother board) in my hand, I found two fuses that are shown on the board layout from page 204 of the manual. Parts labeled A, B, and C are fuses. So you mean that you found 3 fuses, right? Man... I know I'm really bad at finding things in general... I looked up components J and K, but a like a dope didn't think of looking down the list for the term 'Fuse [EMAIL PROTECTED]^! A is so small I can't tell anything about it. B has markings SOC 63V T 3.15A. I interpret this to be a 63V, 3.15A fuse. C has the same markings except it is a 5A fuse. Thanks for spotting those Dick. I guess all my fuses are okay. Fuse A and B measure .5 ohm, and C measures 1 ohm... though my cheap little multimeter zeros out at .5 ohms. I'll reassemble things later today at some point for a few tests. A least things look a bit more hopeful. But since the system failed without any input from me (that I can think of), I have to remain a bit skeptical. While I had it all open, I put in the jumper to change the speed to 266MHz - for those of you who wish to do this, you can just use solder itself as the jumper - it bridges those short connections just fine. Watch the system to see if starts shutting itself down at 266 spontaneously Dick. If your in a mild climate, which I think you are if I recall correctly, you might not have the problems with overheating I did in the Florida heat where I had attempted 266 myself. I used a conductive pen, not being great at soldering these tiny components. And I didn't feel confident enought to try the 233 modification. I think we just heard from someone who had to clock their 100 down to 233 from 266 in order to avoid overheating. Matt __ Celebrate Yahoo!'s 10th Birthday! Yahoo! Netrospective: 100 Moments of the Web http://birthday.yahoo.com/netrospective/
RE: [LIB] Dead L110
Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2005 13:40:25 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] Dead L110 --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matt and Neil; I opened my L100 over the weekend and could find no fuses inside. Nothing remotely similar to a fuse. However, after re-assembling the Libby, mine no longer works either. This suggests operator error. I have no manual or instructions telling me the proper way to disassemble the L100, just used my engineering background and common sense. Clearly, a little knowledge of these small Japanese connectors would have been helpful. I will be going back into the L100 to find which little connector is not seated correctly. Mine displays the same symptoms as yours, Matt - 3 of the LEDs light and the hard drive spins. No image on the screen. Anyone have a link to the proper assembly / disassembly procedures for the L100? Oh boy... I'm sorry this happened to you while trying to help me out Dick. I'm guessing you didn't remove the heatsink when you had things apart. I'm pretty sure the 2 components I found under there are the same as the fuse Neil had me solder a fuse wire across on my 70 sime time back. As I've got the 100 MB set up now, and have been preoccupied with a few other things the past few days, I've not yet taken my 100 MB apart yet to measure the resistance of what look like fuses there for comparison to the ones on the 110 MB. I'm adding you as an addressee, and attaching the service manual for the 100CT/110CT Librettos. Dan's server won't pass it along to the list. I hope you can pull things apart, and have it all work when you put things back together. I've reassembled things a few times and have gotten that sinking feeling when I found the system didn't work fine... but then opened up things again, and found something I forgot to connect. The same symptoms though :-/ Matt __ Celebrate Yahoo!'s 10th Birthday! Yahoo! Netrospective: 100 Moments of the Web http://birthday.yahoo.com/netrospective/ Attached files are not permitted on this list, attachment has been removed.
RE: [LIB] Dead L110
Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2005 17:53:28 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] Dead L110 I'll rename this thread back to the more appropriate[LIB] Dead L110 --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an old L70 that I have never used and never opened up. My main Libby is the L100, which I bought new. Speaking in generalities about fuses, since I have not seen one in either machine, here is what a typical design engineer would do: 1. If a fuse was required to protect the device from catastrophic failure, he would include a fuse that could be replaced easily. (Easily could mean by a Toshiba repair person, or by the customer - but it would still be accessible by someone.) 2. In rare instances, he could put in what is called a fusible link. This is usually thermally tripped, and functions exactly as a fuse that was tripped due to over current. These links are usually soldered in and not meant for anyone but repair personnel to repair. 3. Fuses come in limited sizes / shapes, but they would not be confused with capacitors or resistors. 4. A fuse that prevents the power from being applied to the computer is probably located very close to the connector where the power supply comes in to the computer. When you see large quantities of the same shape device, it is not a fuse. Fuses are a last resort to protect the circuit - it is assumed the problem causing the fuse to blow will be obvious to the person trying to repair it, otherwise just putting in a new fuse would cause the new fuse to also blow. This all sounds very logical Dick. Thanks for the run-down. I will see if I can open up my L100 and tell you if there are any fuses in it. Thanks Dick. I went over my 110 board for quite a while last night, and couldn't find anything that looked uniquely like it may be a fuse. I think Neil was lucky that the 70 had a rather large fuse in comparision to the other components on the board. And it was sitting right next to the input power plug. So finding an open circuit across it was probably a dead giveaway. That fuse powered the screen, and I guess I was pretty lucky that Neil had dealt with the exact same issue. Now the issue with this 110 MB is that nothing works when the system is powered up. Or nothing that I can detect besides 3 out of 4 LEDs lighting, and the HDD spinning. So there may be no dead fuse to find. I took a few photos of the 70 110 MBs that I could blow up on the desktop screen and look over carefully. What I thought may have been solder connections indicating overheating due to brownish discoloration turned out to be solder resin residual most probably from the components being manually soldered to the board during manufacturing. Things like large capacitors, the IR unit, etc. Matt __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
RE: [LIB] Dead L110
Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2005 20:45:36 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] Dead L110 --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I will see if I can open up my L100 and tell you if there are any fuses in it. --- Matt Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I went over my 110 board for quite a while last night, and couldn't find anything that looked uniquely like it may be a fuse. I just pulled the heatsink from the 110 MB and found what look like two of the same fuses that are on the 70 MB. On the top of the case of each is written: 1st one: 2.00(round symbol)b - Also has X660 written on MB to the side 2nd one: 1.00(round symbol)X Both measure open circuited like the one on the 70 had some years back. Wonder if you'll find a 1-2 ohm resistance there Dick. Matt __ Celebrate Yahoo!'s 10th Birthday! Yahoo! Netrospective: 100 Moments of the Web http://birthday.yahoo.com/netrospective/
Re: [LIB] Mr. Barnacle
Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2005 11:29:09 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] Mr. Barnacle --- barnacle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 27 February 2005 23:35, you wrote: I recall you had me test to see if the resistance across the fuse on the L70 was zero, and then solder a fuse wire across the top of the case. The L70 is still going after all these years. I may just pull the L110 out and see if I can spot any fuses in it. Um, basically that was what I did - I looked for things in fuse-style packages - look for quite a large package and markings like '3.15' or similar. Hmmm I've checked the 110 MB. I haven't yet taken the 70 apart to look at the fuse we worked on. But it seems it looked exactly the same as a number of other components. White case with silver metal caps on either end. The 110 MB has dozens of components that look like that. And it seems the 70 did too, tho' my memory is always pretty bad. I don't know much about circuit testing. Would any such component that measures 0 ohms across it be bad? I know some resisters can measure near zero, yet still are what the circuit calls for. Will have to take the 70 apart. I now have the original 100 MB running in the place of the dead 110 MB, and am wondering if clocking it to 233 might be more stable than when I had it at 266. It was always shutting itself down at 266 due to overheating. W2K is obviously impossible to run at 166. Matt __ Celebrate Yahoo!'s 10th Birthday! Yahoo! Netrospective: 100 Moments of the Web http://birthday.yahoo.com/netrospective/
RE: [LIB] Mr. Barnacle
Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2005 23:32:09 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] Mr. Barnacle Hey Dick... --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matt, if the component measures zero across it, and that component is the fuse, it is good. Other devices, like resistors, may or may not be good. Doh!! Yeah... I meant to write... if the resistance across the fuse is infinite, then it's blown. Are you familiar with what fuses look like on the 50/70 100/110 MBs Richard? I just opened up my 70 and found the fuse that Neil had me work on is quite large compared to similar parts on the 110 MB. It's one of two such components on the 70 that's visible without removing the heat sync. The 110 has nothing that looks similar, though I haven't pull the heatsink on it to peak underneath. The fuse from the 70 wouldn't even fit under a heatsink. There are about a dozen similar components on the 110 MB that are about 1/3 the size of that 70 fuse, and quite a number even smaller. It doesn't seem any of those would be a fuse. But I'd think a fuse would look physically different, unless there are 1-2 dozen fuses on the board. That doesn't seem likely. Usually you are measuring more than just the resistor when you place your meter leads across the resistor - you also get parallel paths from other components connected to the resistor. That's where my circuit testing abilities become severely handicapped. Measuring one component on its own I can deal with. Components within circuits on the other hand [EMAIL PROTECTED](*%! Matt This is another case where a copy of the schematic would be extremely helpful. I sent a letter off to Toshiba support a few weeks ago requesting the schematic, but received no reply. Anyone have a contact inside Toshiba? Dick -Original Message- From: Matt Hanson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2005 2:30 PM To: Libretto Subject: Re: [LIB] Mr. Barnacle Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2005 11:29:09 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] Mr. Barnacle --- barnacle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 27 February 2005 23:35, you wrote: I recall you had me test to see if the resistance across the fuse on the L70 was zero, and then solder a fuse wire across the top of the case. The L70 is still going after all these years. I may just pull the L110 out and see if I can spot any fuses in it. Um, basically that was what I did - I looked for things in fuse-style packages - look for quite a large package and markings like '3.15' or similar. Hmmm I've checked the 110 MB. I haven't yet taken the 70 apart to look at the fuse we worked on. But it seems it looked exactly the same as a number of other components. White case with silver metal caps on either end. The 110 MB has dozens of components that look like that. And it seems the 70 did too, tho' my memory is always pretty bad. I don't know much about circuit testing. Would any such component that measures 0 ohms across it be bad? I know some resisters can measure near zero, yet still are what the circuit calls for. Will have to take the 70 apart. I now have the original 100 MB running in the place of the dead 110 MB, and am wondering if clocking it to 233 might be more stable than when I had it at 266. It was always shutting itself down at 266 due to overheating. W2K is obviously impossible to run at 166. Matt __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
[LIB] List server test
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 20:52:00 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: List server test Seemed that Dan got the list server problems ironed out a while back, but I see no posts in the past 24 hours. __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Helps protect you from nasty viruses. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail
[LIB] Mr. Barnacle
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 15:35:10 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Mr. Barnacle Neil... if you're following Lib list posts... I was wondering how you determined that the dead screen problem in your/my L70 was due to a blown fuse... and how you found that fuse. I'm thinking that a problem with a fuse may be my only hope for resurrecting this L110 MB that appears to have died. Both of the last couple issues I was addressing with the 110 were power related: * My USB 2.0 PC card with a USB 2.0 link/transfer cable plugged into it required an external cable from the EPR PS/2 plug to supply enough power to the link cable. And the laplink-like software had made Win2000 go blue screen and reboot when trying to transfer files with the PC card plugged into the EPR. There was no problem with it plugged right into the L100. * I had just set up a batch file to deal with a spooler of some kind that was causing Win2000 to take over a minute to shut down. There were two lines: start /wait net stop spooler MS support page suggested this x:\... ...\ExitWindows.exe /p /f Ran a free shut/power down utility It seems unlikely that software in either case would have led to a fuse blowing. Though with the USB 2.0 PC card/cable, there was an extra current demanded from the cable. But the night of the USB blue screen thing (night before last), I had shut down and rebooted the system several times successfully after the blue screen problem. At the end of the night I had set a Winamp utility to close Winamp and power down the system after 2 hours of playing time, as Ive done many times. It was the next morning that the system first failed to boot. Ironic that the name of the utility is Kill Winamp. I recall you had me test to see if the resistance across the fuse on the L70 was zero, and then solder a fuse wire across the top of the case. The L70 is still going after all these years. I may just pull the L110 out and see if I can spot any fuses in it. Matt __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: [LIB] speaking of pres waterman
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 15:43:34 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] speaking of pres waterman Heh... I loved Pres's unique way of addressing unscribblers! ;-P --- Michael Hodish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 18:21:30 -0500 From: Michael Hodish [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: speaking of pres waterman Googling Pres finds this: http://www.automaxtraining.com/automax_trainers_pres_waterman.php4 __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Find what you need with new enhanced search. http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250
Re: [LIB] Can anybody help me?
Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2005 18:00:59 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] Can anybody help me? Giovanni, Ironically I suddenly seem to be having the same, or similar problem with my 110CT. I power it on, and nothing at all happens. The system power LED on the far left of the 4 LEDs comes on. The 2 LEDs on the right side, the battery charging LED (2nd from right), and the AC power LED (far right) come on. The hard drive spins. But nothing is displayed on the screen, and the system doesn't boot. I tried re-seating the display cable and 32MB expansion memory module, but nothing. Holding down ESC doesn't bring up BIOS/CMOS settings. Only one time did I get the screen to display something. That was by holding down the F12 key with the floppy drive connected. I got the 'update bios' message. But only that once. It hasn't worked again. So I'm looking at the CMOS/RTC battery myself now. I've confirmed that the ones in my 50 and 70 are the same battery as in the 100 and 110. So I'm going to swap one into the 110 from my 50 and see if that helps. More later. Matt --- Matt Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 23:16:30 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] Can anybody help me? Hi Giovanni, The only thing I can think of is that the display cable may need re-seating. If you lift the small plastic bar at the top of the keyboard, you can access the screw that holds it down. After that's off, there's two screws on either side (left and right) that hold the keyboard grounding straps down. The flat keyboard cable is removed by using a small watch screwdriver to push the lock tabs on the cable socket towards the display. Push a little on one side, then the other, than back and forth until the lock releases the cable. I think there are two more screws that hold the heat tin down. Take those off, and you can access the display cable. Disconnect it and re-connect it a few times. You might also want to do the same with the explansion memory card if you have one. It's on the left side with one screw holding it down. If no luck there... maybe someone else on the list will have some other ideas. Matt --- Giovanni Bagnoli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 12:13:14 +0100 From: Giovanni Bagnoli [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Can anybody help me? Hi, I'm giovanni bagnoli, I have a libretto CT50. After a lot of time (about 2 years) I have tried to relight the computer. The result has been that the power led is ignited, the hard disk led too but does not ignite the video and computer doesn't start. It can be the battery cmos? Does anybody have other idea? Thanks giovanni __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: [LIB] Can anybody help me?
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 23:16:30 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] Can anybody help me? Hi Giovanni, The only thing I can think of is that the display cable may need re-seating. If you lift the small plastic bar at the top of the keyboard, you can access the screw that holds it down. After that's off, there's two screws on either side (left and right) that hold the keyboard grounding straps down. The flat keyboard cable is removed by using a small watch screwdriver to push the lock tabs on the cable socket towards the display. Push a little on one side, then the other, than back and forth until the lock releases the cable. I think there are two more screws that hold the heat tin down. Take those off, and you can access the display cable. Disconnect it and re-connect it a few times. You might also want to do the same with the explansion memory card if you have one. It's on the left side with one screw holding it down. If no luck there... maybe someone else on the list will have some other ideas. Matt --- Giovanni Bagnoli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 12:13:14 +0100 From: Giovanni Bagnoli [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Can anybody help me? Hi, I'm giovanni bagnoli, I have a libretto CT50. After a lot of time (about 2 years) I have tried to relight the computer. The result has been that the power led is ignited, the hard disk led too but does not ignite the video and computer doesn't start. It can be the battery cmos? Does anybody have other idea? Thanks giovanni __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: [LIB] 70ct won't format HDD
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 23:22:41 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] 70ct won't format HDD That's nutz Brian. I don't think I can help you there. Only things I can think are running FDISK /MBR in case the MBR area of the disk wasn't zeroed. And maybe a BIOS update?? Hopefully one of the more technically inclined listers will be able to lend a hand there. Have you tried contacting support for the other drives' manufacturers ? Matt --- Brian Mueller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 01:00:41 -0600 (CST) From: Brian Mueller [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: 70ct won't format HDD I've now tried both my Samsung 5400RPM 40GB drive and my Mac Mini's Seagate 4200RPM 40GB drive all to no avail. Let me preface by saying the original 810mb drive from the 50ct works perfect when put in. Any of the programs I use to format the drive (Samsung, but behavior is the same for both) show the drive name scrambled, the SAMSUNG reads RALSTNF and the Seagate drive is scrambled as well. I've used Ontrack to zero fill both drives several times, as well as other formatting utils. I can get the drive to format to 8GB with FDISK, but when I switch over to C: I should have command.com and instead it renames to cnmland.com. Some have suggested boot sector virus, but this is not it. Both drives work perfectly and are recognized correctely (IE: correct name in BIOS) in both other PCs and Macs. Most of the time when I format with Ontrack I get an S on the screen when it starts instead of a blue ontrack bar I should get. Searching the web, I found another person with a Samsung SATA drive who said his also read RALSTNF. He had recently switched to round IDE cables, and when he went back the problem went away. Is there a chance my IDE channel is broke in the Libby? Keep in mind it reads the 810mb drive perfectly. I've tried BIOS 6.2 and 6.4. Also, both drives are in MASTER mode by default without any pin jumpers. Any help is appreciated! __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
[LIB] Problem with USB 2.0 cardcable 110 EPR
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 23:37:55 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Problem with USB 2.0 cardcable 110 EPR After trying 3 USB 2.0 link cables to transfer data between my 110 (W2K) and desktop (WXP), I'm finally realizing that the problem I'm having has to do with the EPR. The link cable plugs into the USB 2.0 PC card in the Libby, and into the USB 2.0 card in the desktop at the other end. There's a Laplink-like program, PClinq2 that lets you transfer files at high speed (3-3.5MBps desktop to 110, and 1.5MBps 110 to desktop) from system to system. It all works great with the USB 2.0 PC card plugged right into the 110's PCMCIA slots. But when it's plugged into the EPR PCMCIA slot (well... I've only tried the one on the left that's pointed to the desktop), and the link software run, W2K goes blue screen with and errors and the system shuts down (and reboots?). Has anyone else ever seen behavior like that with PC cards in their 100/110 EPR? Or more specifically in a situation like this? Thanks, Matt __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Easier than ever with enhanced search. Learn more. http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250
Re: [LIB] L110 lost Yamaha audio in W2000
Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2005 23:20:16 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] L110 lost Yamaha audio in W2000 --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2005 12:38:18 EST In a message dated 2/19/2005 8:43:13 PM Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: snip After disabling and then re-enabling a number of drivers in W2000's Device Manager to see if I could find what was causing W2K's slow shut down This problem (Saving Your Settings takes 30 seconds) has occurred on all of my PCs running W2K/SP4+updates. The workaround described in this Microsoft bulletin: http://clickit.go2net.com/search?pos=8ppos=1plnks=1uplnks=19cat=web; cid=239171site=srcharea=srch.noncomm.googleshape=textlinkcp=info.dogpl cluster-click=0pd=0coll=1query=%22saving+your+settings%22+windows+2000 rawto=http://support.microsoft.com/kb/814770 has cured the problem after having been executed a single time. Not sure why, as the bulletin implies that the command must be run at every log-off, but now log-offs and shutdowns are near-instantaneous. Saving Your Settings goes by in a flash. Note that I have not done this on my L100, since it is running W2K/SP3 and doesn't exhibit the problem. Huh... That works to get my system to shut down fast. Thanks for that Lee! But mine doesn't seem to want to 'remember' the fix as yours did. That bulletin says there's a 'hotfix' for the problem, but gives no URL for downloading it anywhere. Instead they suggest you, contact Microsoft Product Support Services to obtain the fix. Microsoft *$^@^!%#! :-/ Now if I can only get W2K to play my MP3s again. Matt __ Do you Yahoo!? All your favorites on one personal page Try My Yahoo! http://my.yahoo.com
[LIB] L110 lost Yamaha audio in W2000
Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2005 19:42:13 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: L110 lost Yamaha audio in W2000 After disabling and then re-enabling a number of drivers in W2000's Device Manager to see if I could find what was causing W2K's slow shut down, there's now a problem with Yamaha audio drivers. I have no audio anymore. Tests to play audio in Windows Media Player, Winamp, and playing audio files for components in Control Panel's Sound and Multimedia Properties all get a similar error message. They all report that the sound card is, or may be in use by another application. That right from a fresh boot to the W2K desktop. I've gone my usual route of deleting or renaming files Device Manager reports being used by the Yamaha sound card, uninstalling the driver, and then re-installing it. I really only renamed 2 files of the many: x:\WINNT\system32\drivers\ks.sy x:\WINNT\system32\drivers\opl3sax.sy_ I rebooted expecting to see a New Hardware Found window, but W2K just went ahead and replaced the missing files without any notice at all. I also went the Update Driver method in the Properties of the Yamaha OPL3-SAx WDM Driver in Device Manager. Everything went well, no complaints (at least the 1st time) that the existing drivers were the recommended ones. But still I get these error windows: * Windows Media Player: Cannot play back the audio stream: no audio hardware is available, or the hardware is not responding. * Winamp: Error code 4: Windows error message: The specified device is already in use. Wait until it is free, and try again * Control Panel's Sound and Multimedia Properties: Windows cannot play the sound xxx.wav. Your sound card may be in use. Another problem is that there's no icon for Yamaha Audio in the system tray, and it doesn't show up in any of the output device plugin configurations in Winamp. And Usually if it's loaded in Device Manager, it appears in Winamp's output device plugin setup. Launching the volume control from the Start Accessories Entertainment menu results in this error message: * There are no active mixer devices available. You may install devices from the Add/Remove Hardware Wizard in Control Panel The only other clue I can see is a driver that pops up for a few seconds in Device Manger while disabling or enabling the Yamaha driver. When changing those settings, DM's tree closes, then reopens to display the changed setting. But it opens for 6-7 seconds, and shows this audio driver before closing again, and opening again without it: * Microsoft WinMM WDM Audio Compatible Driver While it's being displayed, it has the icon with the red X through it that indicates the driver is disabled. And it pops up like then when both disabling and enabling the Yamaha driver. 'Tis a yet another computer puzzlement in the endless stream... Any suggestions gladly welcomed as always. Matt __ Do you Yahoo!? Read only the mail you want - Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail
Re: [LIB] Battery Issues
Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 01:14:17 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] Battery Issues --- Alistair Cockeram [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There was short and long intervals. At the moment it is on solid orange but I suspect it isn't charging. I have tried 'fiddling' with it etc. Solid orange and not charging was what happened to the battery pack in my 110. For me, a new battery (actually I swapped the guts from a 50/70 extended battery pack into the 110 pack) got things working again. Matt __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Helps protect you from nasty viruses. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail
Re: [LIB] Charging problem on 50ct Error code
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 17:11:25 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] Charging problem on 50ct Error code --- Jürgen Schöll [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to believe this, but is there anyone, who could confirm this by translating the error code? Well... from what I can figure out from the service manual, that sequence of blinks should indicate a battery pack problem where the, Battery voltage is over the limit. To determine the error code, the sequences have to be converted from binary to hex. It seems your series of blinks would calculate to 10h. Though I'm not up on the very technical aspects of things. Neil just posted the URL to his copy of the 50/70 manual here: http://www.nbarnes.easynet.co.uk/libretto/li50_70ct.pdf So have a look in there. Here's what I copied from the pertinent section: == 2.3 Power Supply Troubleshooting The power supply controls many functions and components. To determine if the power supply is functioning properly, start with Procedure 1 and continue with the other Procedures as instructed. The procedures described in this section are: Procedure 1: Power Status Check Procedure 2: Error Code Check Procedure 3: Connection Check Procedure 4: Replacement Check Procedure 1 Power Status Check The following icons indicate the power supply status: q Battery icon q DC IN icon The power supply controller displays the power supply status through the Battery and the DC IN icons as shown in the tables below. Table 2-1 Battery icon == Battery icon Power supply status === Lights orange Quick charge *1 Lights green Battery has a full charge and the AC adapter is connected Blinks orange The battery level becomes low while operating the computer on (even intervals) battery power*2 Doesnt light Any condition other than those above. If the battery becomes too hot charging will stop and the battery icon will go out even if the AC adapter is connected *1 One of two battery levels becomes low. *2 AutoResume Off will be executed soon. Table 2-2 DC IN icon DC IN iconPower supply status ===== Lights green DC power is being supplied from the AC adapter Blinks orange Power supply malfunction*3 Blinks green Stand-by state Doesnt light Any condition other than those above *3 When the power supply controller detects a malfunction, the DC IN icon blinks and an error code is displayed. To check the power supply status, install a battery pack and connect an AC adapter. Check 1 If the DC IN icon flashes orange, go to Procedure 2. Check 2 If the DC IN icon does not light, go to Procedure 3. Check 3 If the Battery icon does not light orange or green, go to Procedure 4. CAUTION: Use only an AC adapter that is manufactured specifically for the Libretto 50CT/70CT. If you use a different AC adapter, the computers power supply may malfunction or a fuse on the system board may be blown. Procedure 2 Error Code Check If the microprocessor detects a malfunction, the DC IN icon blinks orange. The blink pattern indicates an error as shown below. [X] Start Off for 2 seconds [X] Error code (8 bit) 1: On for one second 0: On for half second Interval between data bits: Off for half second Error codes begin with the least significant digit. For example: Error code 12h (Error codes are given in hexadecimal) Read-- On: --||-| |--| |-| |-| |--|_|-|_|-|_|-| Off: ||0|_|1 |_|0|_|0|_|1 |_|0|_|0|_|0|___ Start^ -Order--- Bit 0 12 3 45 6 7 [X][X] Check 1 Convert the DC IN icon blink pattern into the hexadecimal error code and compare it to the tables below. [X] DC power supplied through AC adapter == Error code Meaning == === 01h AC adapter voltage is over the limit (16.5 V) [X] Battery pack Error code Meaning == === 10hBattery voltage is over the limit 11hBattery charge current is over the limit 12hBattery discharge current is over the maximum allowed limit when there is no load 13hBattery voltage is under the limit [X] B5V,VCC output == Error code Meaning == === 20hVCC voltage is over the limit 21hVCC voltage is under the limit 22hVCC does not start up when power supply is turned on [X] B3V output == Error code Meaning == === 30hB3V voltage is over the limit 31hB3V voltage is under the limit 33hB3V does not start up when the power
Re: [LIB] EPR PA2718U for Libby 50/70
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 17:16:16 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] EPR PA2718U for Libby 50/70 --- Bill Cotton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I will be getting a PC USB card for my 50T. I like to know which pc/usb card work best for the 50T user on this list. USB on the 50/70s is a no-go. USB needs a cardbus slot the 50/70s don't have. Only the 100/110 models have cardbus slots to support USB. Sorry 'bout that Bill. Good to hear from you again though. Still peddling your way across the countryside? Matt __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: [LIB] CF Card Libretto
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 17:21:36 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] CF Card Libretto --- Anthony Oresteen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 06:33:10 -0500 From: Anthony Oresteen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] CF Card Libretto Everything is fine! I think it is was CF to PCMCIA adapter. I changed to a Dazzel adapter from a SANDISK and it is fine. All my CF cards work fine. I loaned the SANDISK adapter out; when I get it back I'll retest. Aaaccc Sounds to me like a Sandisk attack again :-/ Let us know what happens when you re-test things with the Sandisk adapter. You just may find the Sansdisk adapter wasn't the problem now that I think about it. There are no components inside those CF adapters but a circuit board that only connects the pins on the Lib's PCMCIA slot to the sockets in the CF card. Basically just a bunch of wires. Could Sandisk really mess up something that simple?? Matt __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: [LIB] EPR PA2718U for Libby 50/70
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 17:34:31 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] EPR PA2718U for Libby 50/70 --- Anthony Oresteen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is NOT a reader. It is a regular CF memory card. To use in the Libby I just put it in a PCMCIA adapter and slide it into the PCMACI slot. Mine adapter is a dazzel. Radio Shack others make the adapters as well. Here's Dell's version (Kingston) http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/productdetail.aspx?sku=448471-4cs=19c=usl=en Guess I didn't read your post correctly Tony. When you mentioned USB 2.0, I thought you meant you were using USB 2.0 to transfer files to and from the CF card. Transferring 1GB worth of data via USV 2.0 goes at 4-5 times the speed of the slower PCMCIA CF card adapter method. I got a USB 2.0 card, and then a USB 2.0 multi-memory card reader a while back. But it would be nice if there was a product that combined the 2 in 1, and have something like the common PCMCIA CF adapter, but with the faster USB 2.0 support. Matt --- Tony Oresteen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For $75 I bought a new SanDisk 1 GB CF card from BH Photo NY. You can copy an entire cd-rom to the CF card and then copy it to the HD in the LIBRETTO without needing to haul an external CD-ROM drive. Use a USB 2.0 CF reader if you can (My home readed is USB 2.0, my work readed is USB 1.1. Big difference!!!) Is that a combination USB 2.0/CF reader all in one? Or is it a USB 2.0 CF reader plugged into a USB 2.0 PC card? I don't know if the former exists, but I'd like one. Matt __ Do you Yahoo!? Read only the mail you want - Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail
Re: [LIB] 70CT battery drain
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 17:48:02 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] 70CT battery drain --- Nick Banks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My 70CT seems to drain the battery when it is turned off. It only takes a day or two and it is fully flat. If I leave the battery disconnected then it holds a charge fine. Anyone have any idea what might be wrong? Well... either a dying battery pack or bad charging circuit in the Libretto. Did you leave the AC power adapter disconnected for those couple of days? Try charging it up, removing it from the Libretto for a couple days, and then putting it back in the Lib. If it's dead at that point, it's most likely a dying battery. Matt __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - You care about security. So do we. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail
Re: [LIB] CF Card Libretto
Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2005 22:18:50 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] CF Card Libretto --- Tony Oresteen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I leave the CF in the Libretto and re-boot Windows 98, Windows 98SE crashes. I remove the CF card, reboot and all is fine. Once Windows is booted I can insert the CF card and Win98 sees it just fine. I've tried it with CF cards that are 64mb, 128mm, 512mb, and 1 gb. Same problem. Windows 98 won't boot with the CF card in place. Tony... Did you ever get this issue ironed out? My 1st thought was a problem with the Sandisk CF card. But you said you tried several other CF cards. They weren't all Sandisk cards, were they? From my expereinces with a portable MP3 player its support list, the Sandisk brand was the brand that was the most problematic. Hardware builders don't always test all brands of CF cards, and CF manufacturers don't test their cards in all hardware components. And it seems a few brands, Sandisk in particular, seem to have more than the average number of problems working properly in a lot of devices. Then, as David Chien mentioned, it could very well have something to do with overclocking, as you seem to have had another related problem (CD-ROM copying?) Matt __ Do you Yahoo!? The all-new My Yahoo! - Get yours free! http://my.yahoo.com
Re: [LIB] Movies on L100CT
Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2005 22:28:56 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] Movies on L100CT --- David Chien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Forget it software only. Simply not fast enough. Here, on my L110 with Sony DVD-ROM drive, it really doesn't get more than 10fps or so. David... Is that drive plugged into the Libby with a PCMCIA card or into a USB 2.0 card? John said he didn't have any luck running DVDs on his USB 2.0 DVD player, but I was kind of curious to hear from other people who may have tried such a setup. Matt __ Do you Yahoo!? The all-new My Yahoo! - What will yours do? http://my.yahoo.com
Re: [LIB] Charging problem on 50ct Error code
Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2005 22:45:06 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] Charging problem on 50ct Error code Jürgen... I had the AC plug in my 50CT fail just a few weeks back. I wonder if you're having the same problem. I pluged in the AC cord without the battery inserted, and the system started to boot, but then suddenly shut down. I looked into the Libby's AC socket, and found that I could move one of the metal connectors. I took the system apart, and found that the plastic socket had broken into 2 pieces. I just haven't gotten around to epoxying the two halves back together. I wonder if what you're seeing is the same broken AC connector that sometimes makes a connection with the power cord, and sometimes doesn't. The batteries then sometimes getting charged, and then going dead and causing the blinking LEDs?? Matt --- Jürgen Schöll [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2005 18:33:52 +0100 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (=?iso-8859-1?Q?J=FCrgen_Sch=F6ll?=) Subject: Charging problem on 50ct Error code Hello folks, maybe someone can help me. Yesterday my beloved libretto suddenly crashed. Everything went dark, the battery led was dark, only the DC-IN led flashes. The libretto was connected with the AC adapter to the wall socket, a 2600 mh battery was in the libretto. The led flashes an error code - I suppose: After 2 seconds off at the start, there are 4 short flashes, then comes 1 long flash (1 second) und then follow 3 short flashes. Then again 2 seconds dark, 4 short flashes and so on. It looks like 1 000. Is this a binary signal? What is the meaning? The AC- adapter seems to be ok. It gives 15,08 V and I can use the libretto with the small batteries (1300 hm). The charging of this small batteries is ok. I can use the libretto without any battery, only withe the AC-adapter. I tried a totally new battery (2600 mh), all went dark, I can't charge it. I tried a small older battery, everything seemd to be ok. Today morning I retried an older 2600 mh battery, which caused yesterday the same faults. Now the charging led lights orange, everything seems allright. When I insert another older battery, which produced the evening before the above mentioned faults, everything went dark, only the error code flashes. When I insert the new uncharged battery (2600 mh) nothing goes, the DC-in led flashes the error code. When I unplug the libretto, replug ist and then insert an 1300 mh battery everything goes. The batteries, which work, have a voltage of 12,5 V at the most outward contacts and 11,97 V between contact 1 and 3. The batteries, that don't work have slightly different voltages: 12,53 most outward, 12,03 between contact 1 and 3. I don't think that matters. I have no idea, what is wrong. The contacts of the batteries are ok. Not all 2600 mh batteries are broken. The AC-adapter charges (but only small batteries). Cheers Jürgen __ Do you Yahoo!? The all-new My Yahoo! - Get yours free! http://my.yahoo.com
Re: [LIB] Libretto Batteries - Rebuilding
Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2005 23:20:00 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] Libretto Batteries - Rebuilding --- John Liu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am thinking about buying lithium cells of the same dimension and capacity (ideally even the same make and model), unsoldering the bad cells, and rebuilding the pack. Has anyone done this? Are there any special tricks? A few people have had success rebuilding their battery packs. You do have to be very careful to get everything reassembled exactly without damaging the ciruit board, mis-wiring things, or making any other errors. LiIon batteries not installed correctly can explode and make an average day turn into a nightmware. It'd be smart to plug the rebuilt battery pack into a Libby battery charger, put the charger on one side or a wall, and run the cord around to the other side before plugging it in and testing to see if the rebuild went well. With that warning though, you can get replacement cells from Sabah Oceanic: http://sabahoceanic.com You'd want the Panasonic CGR17670HG cells. Plug that part number into Sabah's search engine and you'll find them at $7.40USD each. Nice thing is that they're 1500mah instead of the original 1200mah cells, so they're power the Libbys a bit longer. The original cells were 17mm by 67mm, and those CGR17670HGs are a hair shorter, so they'll fit fine. There are also 18mm wide Panasonic cells that a couple people squeezed in by hacking off the sides of the battery pack shell. They are higher capacity, but the finished rebuild looks like hell. Not a huge problem those I guess, as I think only the top and back sides get hacked off. Once in the Libby, I don't think it looks normal. Sabah will also weld soldering tabs onto to the cells for free. They do that overseas, so I guess they aren't subject to suits that could develop if they were providing the cells from here in the USA. In fact they say they'll weld cells to any spec they're provided with. I was wondering if I could send them the dismantled battery pack, and have them attach the whole circuit board onto the new cells for me. You could also get one of the extended battery packs for the 50/70s off EBay that go for a lost less than the ones for the 100/110s, and then just swap the contents. That worked fine for me. I had one of those for my 70CT. Dropping it's guts in the 110 pack works fine, and has for everyone I've heard from that's done this. I just never bothered to glue the 2 halves of the pack together, as I'd like to go the Sabah route myself at some point. And the pack stays together quite nicely after it's plugged into the Libby. I see that I can buy a new pack for around $100, but I'm a bit skeptical - not sure how I avoid getting a used pack for my $100. I also found some places that commercially rebuild battery packs. What do you think about these alternatives? As I pointed out, everyone I've written has had success just buying a 50/70 pack on EBay, and swapping. Someone complained that you never know what thecondition of the pack will be before you get it. But I've not seen any complaints on the list from people who've gone that way. Another thing I'd like to do is to better understand how the battery pack works. Why are there so many contacts in the plug and what is all that circuitry doing? The circuitry appears to monitor the voltage between each pair of cells, there's something that looks like a temperature sensor taped to one cell, and there's another component (a slim bit of black plastic) wired to the board. Finally, is there a test I can do to verify my Libretto is working properly - I don't want to spend $50 or $100 on rebuilding or replacing battery packs and then find out it was a problem in the L100's power board. Raymond??!! Matt __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: [LIB] Movies on L100CT
Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2005 23:26:57 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] Movies on L100CT --- David Chien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the Sony DVD drive is plugged into what seems to be a SCSI to PCMICA 32-bit adapter. Think the controller (?) in a USB 2.0 PC Card might speed things on on the Libby end of things enough to get some brand of external DVD player to play DVDs on a 110? It does wonders for speeding up MP3 transfers to CF cards. __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: [LIB] AVG Free Issues
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 01:27:16 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] AVG Free Issues --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's a link to a couple of very handy utilities ( other things), Control Panel and Startup Monitor, for W2K. Control Panel offers a fancied-up msconfig-type utility, which works very well, allowing one to select/deselect software that W2K will run at startup. A great improvement over Task Manager. Hmmm... Looks like a handy utilty to shut down some processes that otherwise might also be disabled in the W2K Administrative Tools. Haven't gotten to the point of installing the stripped down version of W2K Philip writes about. But I keep wondering if it might be possible to get more performance out of W2K by just going in and shutting down processes that I may not need, as I'm not running it as a client server. Matt __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: [LIB] New 30 Gb Drive Issue
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 15:16:28 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] New 30 Gb Drive Issue --- Philip Nienhuis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hint: before asking questions, peruse the archives on: http://www.technoir.nu/libretto/list/ We don't mind answering but some self-help may yield much better answers and insights. Problem these days is that Dan's removed the footer from posts that gave the URL to one of the 2 list archives. And though I know Mike Kopplin runs the one you list above, in all these years, I've never figured out who runs this one: http://www.mail-archive.com/libretto@basiclink.com/ I always though it was Dan. because of the libretto@basiclink.com in the URL. But Dan told me he doesn't even know who's running it. As for people posting questions before checking in the archives, yes... that's always a nice way for people to go. But personally I don't mind people popping up and asking whatever's on their mind. I've found that many archive searches can be a real pain myselt. Of course you, David, Raymond and a few others always end up addressing the more complicated issues... Matt __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Helps protect you from nasty viruses. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail
Re: [LIB] New 30 Gb Drive Issue
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 15:38:24 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] New 30 Gb Drive Issue --- Philip Nienhuis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The first (HD LED) happens with some HDs only = So the answer = Yes The 1st? The 1st on the right side or left? Either way, both are always on when all my Librettos are running. The 2nd from the left is the HDD LED, and that only lights when the system is working. From left to right, this is what I understand the LEDs to momitor: 1. System is on - Green 2. HDD activity - Green 3. Charger. Green-charged / Orange-charging 4. AC Power connected - Green I think 1. goes orange with problems with the system, and there may be color issues for the others. It's all documented in the owners and service manuals, isn't it? Does anyone have the 50/70 100/110 service manuals online anywhere? Mine seem to be corrupt. I've yet to write anything about the W98/W2K file problem I discovered. I hope the problem with these corrupted manual files isn't related. Matt __ Do you Yahoo!? The all-new My Yahoo! - Get yours free! http://my.yahoo.com
Re: [LIB] XP video driver
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 03:33:40 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] XP video driver --- Laszlo Szalai [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have only one problem: the video driver does not support that not standard resolution which was supported by the 98 driver. And the 98 driver is not working under xp. Any idea? It seems there was some discussion about problems with video drivers for the Librettos way back when people 1st starting experimenting with putting W2K on them. Maybe that was back when W2K was 1st released. I installed W2K that came with SP3 recently, and had no problem at all setting up the 800x480 high resolution driver. It was part of the W2K OS I installed. Though W2K 1st installed a generic 640x480 driver when setup was complete, I just went into the advanced properties of the display preferences, and changed the screen size and number of colors, and was set. To my knowledge there was no W2K video driver made for the Librettos, though it seems people may have found another that worked for them... Though I may be wrong. If you have one of the 1st couple versions of W2K, I wonder if installing SP4 would install the video driver you need. I started looking for what all SP4 installs, but only found a list of the security updates. One way or the other, you probably ought to install SP4 for the security updates... And after it's in, you might find the video driver you need may have been installed too. Maybe ask about that in a Windows support group somewhere if you want to be sure. I know there's a Compuserve Windows forum that's open to everyone on the Inet these days. Matt __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: [LIB] AVG Free Issues
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 03:52:35 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] AVG Free Issues --- Philip Nienhuis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What would concern me more is whether AVG Free can catch enough viruses. I have the impression that it performs a bit less in this respect than McAfee, but McAfee really slows down Windows on the Lib110. Heh... As I've written, my solution to AV software slowing down these Libbies has been just not to install it at all. I've been running underpowered systems on the net sinnce '94-'95 and have only gotten hit a few times in all that time. And until recently, those times were always when I neglected to run an AV scan on a file before I executed it. Only recently after installing W2K did I run into a virus that I got by merely visiting a website. And that could have been avoided if I had run Windows Update beforehand. The trick for me is just to run AV on any susceptible file before I run it. That and always watching for outgoing data transfers online when I've got nothing running that should be causing it. And on quirky OS behaviour, immediately runing something like TaskInfo2000 and looking for processes that are running that aren't anything I know is usual to see running. Having AV software running and checking on everything on an ongoing basic on thse old under-powered systems just slows things up way too much for my comfort. But I do always have it installed to run manually when I think a file may be suspicious Matt __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 250MB free storage. Do more. Manage less. http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250
Re: [LIB] AVG Free Issues
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 22:07:52 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] AVG Free Issues --- David Chien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also, Sygate Personal Firewall and ZoneAlarm both do a great job for me. But I'm using both on different systems and find that they both work fine. Funny you mentioned your preference for Symantec AV, but go with Sygate and ZoneAlarm firewalls. How about Symantec's firewall David? Any opinions there? I have Norton Personal Firewall 2001 I picked up somewhere along the way, and it's been good for me as far as I can tell. You can set it to auto-deal with things, or have it alert you each time there's an incoming our outgoing issue, and lets you configure the settings manually... or for issues with major brand software like other Symantec software, will suggest you let it auto-configure itself. As for AV... I was kind of wondering what issues Lee has with Norton. I have Norton 2000 that I just keep reinstalling onto a fresh copy of W98 somewhere that keeps making Symantec (now owning Norton) think it's a fresh installation. That way I get free updates for 6 months to a year or so. I was guessing that the current Symantec AV definitions are about as good as I'm going to find no? Matt __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Easier than ever with enhanced search. Learn more. http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250
Re: [LIB] Partitioning 40 gb HD on Libretto 100CT.
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 22:43:01 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] Partitioning 40 gb HD on Libretto 100CT. --- Tony Oresteen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Installing a fresh 40 gig Hard Drive in a Toshiba Libretto 100CT for Dual Booting Windows 98 SE and IBM PC DOS 7.0 Here's how I did it. Terrific breakdown of the process Tony! I wish David, or someone else with a Libretto support website would archive well written processes like this for future reference, unless I've missed it on your Adorable Toshiba Libretto website David. BTW: I think you must mean Partition Magic 8.0, not Partition Manager 8.0 Tony. There is no Partition Manager 8.0, it's at version 6.0 at this point: http://www.partition-manager.com/ The former is from Symantec at this point, and the latter from the Paragon Software Group. Interesting... I've not seen Partition Manager before. Anyone have any experience with it? Is that the software what you meant to write about Tony? Matt __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: [LIB] Disc Size - Maximum?
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 20:39:03 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] Disc Size - Maximum? John... I'd be really interested to know if you've tried David's test for checking exactly where the Libretto writes its hibernation data to on your hard drive Again, his post was here: http://www.technoir.nu/libretto/list/2002/msg03093.html The process was to simply write something in Notepad, hibernate, come out of hibernation and use a hex editor to search the disk for the text you wrote in Notepad. Are you really seeing the data written to the end of the drive? That'd be impressive if it is indeed happening. Matt. John Musielewicz wrote: hi matt umm matt the bios sees a drive over 8Gig as a 8 gig drive so it'll write on the end of the drive. it sees the whole drive like this |-bios=8GB---| |-Operating system=greater 8GB---| so figure looking at the drawing above the end or the drive is to the right the bios will write it at the end and the os will write it at the end if you set it up that way of course. now many people will say differant but I let you in on a little secret. I am --- Philip Nienhuis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Once I was thinking exactly these same thoughts, after I was informed by Wilm Bockey that the BIOS hibernation stuff indeed uses the int13 extensions - IOW the BIOS hibernation routines would have no problem at all writing the memory image to the real end of the disk. But then (1) a number of people who ignored the location of the hibernation area around the 8 GB barrier have reported serious data loss; (2) a number of people simply tested where the BIOS dumps the memory image using files with special patterns and found it to be around 8 GB; (until further info comes along I perceive these as simple facts) and some further thinking yielded: (3) There is no specially designated hibernation area mentioned in the MBR or EMBR. Without it, how would BIOS hibernation be able to deduce where the end of the disk is...? The only available alternative outside the OS is to use the crippled disk size reporting function of the BIOS itself. And that can only see max. 8 GB... You can check that yourself using a simple DOS assembly prog to involve int13 subfunc 48h; it reports disk size by CHS parameters (implying 1024 cyl limit) rather than number of sectors (cf. to LBA). __ Do you Yahoo!? Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Get it on your mobile phone. http://mobile.yahoo.com/maildemo
Re: [LIB] Disc Size - Maximum?
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 00:09:12 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] Disc Size - Maximum? --- Philip Nienhuis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nick Schiller wrote: I can understand the logic of what is being described but have no real understanding of how to implement it on a disc - could either of you provide an idiots guide to setting up a new disc in a Libretto CT110, 64Mb, 266Mhz - 233 Mhz :-) it would be very much appreciated Search the archives, http://www.technoir.nu/libretto/list/ or peek at my Windows page, http://home.hccnet.nl/pr.nienhuis/Windows.html (be careful with numbers, I should update the page soon) Actually, I had a bit of a tough time finding David C's old posts on the process. Best I could come up with was: http://www.technoir.nu/libretto/list/2002/msg03093.html __ Do you Yahoo!? All your favorites on one personal page Try My Yahoo! http://my.yahoo.com
Re: [LIB] Win2000 SP4 worth it or not?
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 01:54:45 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] Win2000 SP4 worth it or not? --- David Chien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyways, try this link: http://v4.windowsupdate.microsoft.com/catalog/en/ Should have all of the downloads for local install and offlining. I've gone that route before David. But at least one, if not more of the files Windows Update found for my system weren't available there for download. I think Philip pointed that out too. __ Do you Yahoo!? Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Get it on your mobile phone. http://mobile.yahoo.com/maildemo
Re: [LIB] Cryptic Message at Boot - W2K
Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2005 22:02:44 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] Cryptic Message at Boot - W2K --- Philip Nienhuis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does installing the Service Pack 4 result in the same slow shut down? Or is this only happening to me? Don't know. ISTR shutdown/boot times were also quite long w/ SP3. Ah... so you've not yet gone to SP4 yet Philip? Wonder what people are seeing that have installed it. Yes, I have SP4 on both Dutch and English W2K. Okay... I'm a but confused here You do have SP4 installed. Do you have it installed on a standard, non-stripped down installation? My copy of W2K came with SP3 as part of it. And when 1st installed, it shut down fairly quickly. Don't imagine installing SP4 will ever speed things up. I wonder if some Windows specialist may know how to speed up the shut down process. Seems if I haven't made any chanages to the OS during a session, it doesn't need to check for changes. Turning that process off might speed things up. Matt __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: [LIB] video
Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2005 22:10:55 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] video --- John Musielewicz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: yes that is what I don't understand. I am properly decoding the dvd to play at what seems at a low enough bitrate so I am watch it. The last was a 96k (if I recall correctly) video stream. Mp3's play just fine at a 320k stream using less memory and I have plenty, I would assume for a 96k stream.I have over 16M of video memory -- I just can't understand why it won't play. I want it to play!:(( Another approach I was thinking about was feeding the video output of the home DVD player into an old ATI All-In-Wonder card I got on a bargain a while back, any recording the DVD realtime to an .mpg file and burning to a standard CD-R. But for the life of me, I can't figure out how to use any of the card's bundled software to record video fed into the card's input! Kinda outrageous that a card made to record video doesn't come with video recording software. There's video editing software that I can edit avi and mpg files with. But I see nothing to record something from an external video source. Matt __ Do you Yahoo!? The all-new My Yahoo! - Get yours free! http://my.yahoo.com
Re: [LIB] video
Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2005 22:13:29 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] video --- John Musielewicz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a usb 2.0 card with a usb 2.0 dvd burner. it is what i am commenting on. It has a 2MB cache to play movies and really should be fast enough. I calculated it out. I am trying to play movies in a 640x480 window and it takes around a 220k stream to do this. It should be playing fine since I have enough of a cache on the dvd along with plenty of video ram for the colors. I also have over 20MB of free ram for the decoder and movie cache to bypass the hard drive. the only thing I can figure, as long as the decoder is properly written, is it must be a problem with the video driver -- maybe my refresh rates aren't right but then who *knows* what those are supposed to be? You gotta remember the bloat on the dvd is the encrpytinatiion so the real movie is only about a 1.5 gig or less. so a 90 minute movie is only a couple megs a second of data which the libby can easily handle--especially a 110 or 100 with the pci buss. Have you tried this both in Windows and Linus John? __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: [LIB] Disc Size - Maximum?
Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2005 22:22:40 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] Disc Size - Maximum? --- John Musielewicz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: with XP I believe its 200GB and the same with linux. 100GB is availible now in the 2.5 inch format. But with whatever drive you choose be sure to leave enough free space on the end of the drive so you don't loose your place if you run out of juice and need to hibernate. Not at the end of the drive John. There needs to be ~32MB+ for the 50/70CTs, and ~64MB+ left at the 8GB mark on a HDD left empty, or made as a partition for the Libs to save all data in RAM to the HDD when it hibernates. Many, many, many posts on the process in the list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/libretto@basiclink.com/ http://www.technoir.nu/cgi-bin/libretto.cgi Matt __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: [LIB] Disc Size - Maximum?
Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2005 22:23:09 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] Disc Size - Maximum? --- John Musielewicz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: with XP I believe its 200GB and the same with linux. 100GB is availible now in the 2.5 inch format. But with whatever drive you choose be sure to leave enough free space on the end of the drive so you don't loose your place if you run out of juice and need to hibernate. Not at the end of the drive John. There needs to be ~32MB+ for the 50/70CTs, and ~64MB+ left at the 8GB mark on a HDD left empty, or made as a partition for the Libs to save all data in RAM to the HDD when it hibernates. Many, many, many posts on the process in the list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/libretto@basiclink.com/ http://www.technoir.nu/cgi-bin/libretto.cgi Matt __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
RE: [LIB] Memory 96MB
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 18:02:23 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] Memory 96MB --- Nick Schiller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matt Thanks for information - my machine is already at 64Mb The link to the suggested 96Mb is: http://falinski-edv.bester-kundenservice.de/product_info.php?products_id=134 osCsid=2dfaaed531fcf5f81cdafc918a839605 Any thoughts? Looks inviting... but this is new to me. And I haven't seen mention of it on the list to my recollection. Maybe someone else can fill us in. The only list member who's made mention of increasing the size on RAM has been John M. as far as I know. And he was talking about going as high as 512MB. Matt __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: [LIB] Cryptic Message at Boot - W2K
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 18:34:08 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] Cryptic Message at Boot - W2K --- Philip Nienhuis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, but not vital AFAICS: arcldr.exe arcsetup.exe Hmmm... don't see those listed for the Windows 2000 Pro startup process here: These seem to be used or at least installed in case of dual booting (W2K + W9x). From what I can find, those files seem to be more related more to repairing W2K, or a W2K/W98 dual booting system: http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/Windows/2000/server/reskit/en-us/Default.asp?url=/resources/documentation/Windows/2000/server/reskit/en-us/prork/pref_tts_pwtl.asp http://www.microsoft.com/mspress/books/sampchap/1393e.asp http://tweakhomepc.virtualave.net/dual/repairdualboot.html But very useful to know about for sure. Full version Win2K : same story. IE-Stripped version: total shutdown time less than 20 seconds after clicking Start-Shutdown. While on the stripped version boot time increases a little, shutdown remains fast as ever. Okay... insteresting. It's not just my setup then. Does installing the Service Pack 4 result in the same slow shut down? Or is this only happening to me? Don't know. ISTR shutdown/boot times were also quite long w/ SP3. Ah... so you've not yet gone to SP4 yet Philip? Wonder what people are seeing that have installed it. Matt __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - You care about security. So do we. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail
RE: [LIB] Disc Size - Maximum?
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 18:37:11 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] Disc Size - Maximum? --- Nick Schiller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for info - I assume this is a 9.5mm thick disc with the plastic removed from the bay in the Libretto Can't remember which model you said you have Nick. But removing the spacers was only an issue for the 50CT. The 70/100/110CT models all accept 9.5mm HDDs with no problem. Matt __ Do you Yahoo!? Read only the mail you want - Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail
Re: [LIB] Cryptic Message at Boot - W2K
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 13:56:24 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] Cryptic Message at Boot - W2K --- Philip Nienhuis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matt Hanson wrote: Boot.ini Ntldr Ntdetect.com And sometimes Ntbootdd.sys There may be others. Yes, but not vital AFAICS: arcldr.exe arcsetup.exe Hmmm... don't see those listed for the Windows 2000 Pro startup process here: http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/Windows/2000/server/reskit/en-us/Default.asp?url=/resources/documentation/Windows/2000/server/reskit/en-us/prork/prbd_std_damc.asp But I'm not sure if that's the page I found last month when I was searching for info on MS support pages describing the boot process. I was wondering if your installation of W2K is taking as long as mine is now Philip. As I wrote before, the shut down popup window saying, Please wait... Saving your settings has been hanging up for over a minute ever since I had Windows Update install 37 patches. Does installing the Service Pack 4 result in the same slow shut down? Or is this only happening to me? Matt __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Find what you need with new enhanced search. http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250
Re: [LIB] Memory 96MB
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 23:52:34 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] Memory 96MB --- Nick Schiller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone have any experience of using memory upgrade to 96MB Any problems? Anything over 32MB for the 50/70CTs and 64MB for the 100/110CTs would have to be custom built, and is John M's department these days. See his recent posts in the archives. But your should have no problem with the standard mrmory upgrade for your model. Matt __ Do you Yahoo!? The all-new My Yahoo! - Get yours free! http://my.yahoo.com
Re: [LIB] video
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 17:06:06 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] video --- David Chien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As for the L110, DVDs are too slow over cardbus -- 10fps. I still haven't heard from anyone who may have a USB 2.0 DVD player. Maybe no one on the list has one. But I recently got one of those USB 2.0 networking cables, and now I get 4 times the data transfer speed for copying MP3s from the desktop over the standard ethernet connection. I'd think one might actually get a USB 2.0 DVD player to play DVDs fine, since the USB 2.0 PC card, as Raymond pointed out some time back, has its own controller chip that speeds up the transfer rate over what the limitations of the Libby's motherboard can achieve. Or is 4x what the libby can do now still too slow? Matt __ Do you Yahoo!? Read only the mail you want - Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail
Re: [LIB] Win2000 SP4 worth it or not?
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 17:22:43 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] Win2000 SP4 worth it or not? --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have only SP3 on my L100, but as I'm finding out on a new desktop, if one wants USB 2.0 to function, SP4 + updates is REQUIRED. This explains why my Belkin Cardbus/USB2 PCMCIA Card shows the dreaded yellow flag in Device Manager. Must be a problem with you Belkin card Lee. I have a cheap USB2 card I got at a computer swap meet for $15US that works fine with W2K SP3. For the SP4 install, find a friend/relative/casual acquaintance who has a cable/T1/DSL connection and have him/her download the network version of SP4 (it's just the entire Service Pack in one chunk) and burn to a CD. Think I'll just download it in 3-4 segments overnight using a download manager that'll let me resume the download. Very painless install. The updates can be downloaded a few at a time over dial-up; the WU page will keep track for you. I'm having problems with W2K taking forever to shut down now after I ran Windows Update online. I get a shutdown popup that says something like, Saving your personal settings, and the system takes over a minute to shut down these days. Wasn't that way before the WUs. And I had the same problem the 1st time I installed W2K. Shutdown went quickly until installing all the latest WUs. Does the SP4 resolve that problem? Or am I the only one seeing this? David's right about the WU Catalog (the USB2 update is available there as a stand-alone product for download), Huh... That must be addressing a USB2 problem only certain PC cards have, as mine worked fine both before and after I ran WU and installed 37 updates. I didn't check each one to see if one dealt with a USB2 issue though. and about running SP4 on a fresh install of W2K. I think many of the SP4 horror stories out there resulted from updating an older install. Eeeecckkk... Well, I can always restore the W2K image I've got. That's saved my butt a few times trying to sort out that Int13 extensions problem. I'll fill in the details soon. I've spotted a conflict between W2K and W98 with long files names that is most likely the culprit for all my problems, tho' I can't explain it. Matt __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: [LIB] Cryptic Message at Boot - W2K
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 17:42:35 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] Cryptic Message at Boot - W2K --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks, Matt. Hopefully the few geek genes I have perhaps passed along will enable my daughter to attempt this procedure on her own. I was thinking that the process I outlined may or my not alter the existing boot.ini references to the options you're seeing at boot. There are only a few files needed for boot. These as I recall: Boot.ini Ntldr Ntdetect.com And sometimes Ntbootdd.sys There may be others. But if those are missing, the process I outlined should replace them. It worked for me at least. If the 1st time through the process I outlines, you end up with the same problem, you could try backing up those boot files, and running the repair process again. Then you could always replace the files from the Recovery Console, or a W98 boot floppy. You could also ask about this over at the Windows XP Pro-Server-2000-NT Support forum. All Compuserve forums have been open to everyone on the Inet for some time at this point. You just need to create yet another online account. FYI, the 7010CT is a PII-300, so not so new. I bought it on ebay for $160, threw in my L100's old 20GB Travelstar, installed W98se/W2k and voila! Okay... now I'm curious. Did you go the way of installing those OSs without drive overlay? I'll guess you did, and that you're not seeing the problems I've been having with W98's Scandisk finding data problems on partitions that W2K also accesses. Unless you've set things up so they can't see each other's partitions or shared data partitions. Matt __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: [LIB] Win2000 SP4 worth it or not?
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 23:33:55 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] Win2000 SP4 worth it or not? --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Microsoft support site seems to suggest that, before SP4, USB2 was not supported by W2K: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/319973/EN-US/ Hmmm I'm pretty darned sure I installed this USB2 card well before I loaded the Windows Updates. I installed this 110 motherboard into my 100 and set up W2K a couple of months back. Checking my notes, I finally loaded all of the Windows Updates online on the 5th of this month. I know I haven't messed with that USB2 card's drivers for well before that. But then my memory, even with trying to keep notes on document computer issues, doesn't always serve me well. I see from that MS URL that for the cause of the problem, it states; This problem occurs because Windows 2000 does not include support for EHCI host controllers. Maybe Philip, Raymond or someone more technically oriented can tell us if some USB2 cards don't need a EHCI host controller to operate. Or if it might be a fundamental component of a USB2 card. Otherwise I guess it's not a huge issue. I'd still like to know if a USB DVD drive might be able to play DVDs on a Libretto. Matt __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Helps protect you from nasty viruses. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail
Re: [LIB] Cryptic Message at Boot - W2K
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 23:51:59 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] Cryptic Message at Boot - W2K --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This machine is 1999-vintage, so the BIOS probably supports 8GB drives. Ah... If that's the case then you wouldn't need drive overlay, and wouldn't be a good test subject to troubleshoot the problems I've been seeing. As far as Scandisk goes, I rarely run it. The L100 is very stable with W2K, and my extremely limited understanding of IDE HDDs suggests that it's not necessary to do more than the occasional defrag, which I do under W2K's Disk Management. Well it's W98 I'm having problems with, and the reason why I've gone to the 110 motherboard and W2K. Pushing W98 to do all of the audio work I've been doing with MP3s on the 70CT was seeing W98 crash at least once a day on a regular basis, and many days saw more crashes than I'd care to enumerate. And Scandisk usually runs automatically after crashes unless it's disables in msdos.sys, so you'd have seen it more often if you'd been having similar problems. I'd always exit it in DOS, and run it from Windows as the memory management in W98 makes the scan of 30GB worth of files, most MP3s, go a lot faster. Guess W98 on your system(s) has been stable enough not to have do have dealt with crashes and Scandisk running in DOS a lot. That was the case for me too before I loaded Win98SE on the 70 and started playing around with MP3s. The SE-less copy of Win98 on the 70 was always very stable. Funny... David C. seems to have had the opposite experience, tho' he was using SE on his 110. I msut say that so far W98SE does seem to be working nicely on this 110 system. Matt __ Do you Yahoo!? Read only the mail you want - Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail
Re: [LIB] Win2000 SP4 worth it or not?
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 14:13:52 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] Win2000 SP4 worth it or not? --- Philip Nienhuis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But it's a real problem to have to go to Windows Update to install all of the 38-40 patches via dialup every time you load a new copy of W2K. And the process of downloading the updates individually and figuring out what order to install them is a real pain, if possible to do correctly at all. 1. *That* ^ is precisely the reason that a service pack is so practical. I surely don't want to install it over a network connection though, as all kinds of flakey things can happen in that process. And it's something like a 135MB download which is a real pain for a dialup account even though with a download manager you can go back and resume the download if you get/have to disconnect(ed). 3. I tend to doubt the negative reports in the URL you provided. I'd rather think the PC's in question were already flakey. There was one post from someone who specifically pointed out that he had problems even though he claimed his system was immaculate. But he might have ben using may an earlier version of the SP4. I think one person was proably reasonably accurate when he reported that it's wise to wait 5-6 months after a SP is released for MS to work out bugs, and issue newer versions. It's been well over a year, so the current one may be relatively trouble free. 4. Yet it is better to slipstream a service pack into a W2K installation CDROM and then install it, than applying SPx to an already installed (and possibly somehow polluted) W2K. If you want to try Fred Vorck's IE-removal trick, you need to do this anyway. If/when I get to tweaking that 2nd installation of W2K, I may just go that way, and start over with it. 6. There is a trick to save the hotfixes: Heh... I remembered that the other night from a W98 WU last year. But this time things were way easier. All the W2K update folders where all right in the x:\WUTemp. No branching out at all like with W98. I did write down some of the updates as they went, but for a 3 hour process, that wasn't practical in the middle of the night. However when the process finished, the WU web page listed all of the updates it had installed. Checking against the list I'd made of 6-7 updates, that section matched. So I'm guessing the whole list was chronological. I clicked the link to see the history of the systems WUs, but that list didn't match the section of 6-7 updates I had written down as they went in. So yeah... I'll write what I have to a CD-R at this point, and test installing them whenever the need pops up. SP4 adds a lot more things to the W2K OS though, doesn't it? I had a tough time finding any information on the various MS support websites. Matt __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
[LIB] Win2000 SP4 worth it or not?
Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2005 20:12:52 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Win2000 SP4 worth it or not? Real quick... anyone have any option on whether or not Win2000 Service Pack 4 is really worth idownloading and nstalling? From the looks of the user comments at download.com, I think not: http://www.download.com/3302-2098_4-10210714.html But it's a real problem to have to go to Windows Update to install all of the 38-40 patches via dialup every time you load a new copy of W2K. And the process of downloading the updates individually and figuring out what order to install them is a real pain, if possible to do correctly at all. Matt __ Do you Yahoo!? The all-new My Yahoo! - Get yours free! http://my.yahoo.com
Re: [LIB] Cryptic Message at Boot - W2K
Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2005 01:59:13 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] Cryptic Message at Boot - W2K --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can't find any info on the web, and was hoping one of you had encountered this before. Thanks for any suggestions. Well... you could try doing a manual repair of the W2K boot files as I've done too many times in the past couple of days dealing with W98/W2K Int13 extensions problems (more on the angst-ridden ordeal later): If you feel brave, you could try runing the W2K setup and: Screen 1 - Win2000 installation: 1. To install W2K press ENTER 2. To repair existing W2K OS press R 3. To quit press (F3) Select option 2 and go to Screen 2: 1. To repair W2K using Recovery Console press C 2. To repair W2K using emergency repair process press R Select option 2 and go to Screen 3: 1. For manual repair process press M 2. For fast repair process press F Select option 1 and go to Screen 4: 1. [X] Inspect startup environment 2. [ ] Verify Windows system files 3. [X] Inspect Boot Sector Clear the X from option 2 and go to Screen 5: 1. If you have a W2K Emergency Repair Disk press ENTER 2. If you want don't have an ERD press L and setup will attempt to locate for you. If your have an ERD it's quick. Option 2 goes the route of scanning your drive for W2K installations. Option 1 take you to Screen 6 Insert ERD into drive A: and press ENTER Screen 7: 1. To have Setup examine the drives for W2K installation files press ENTER 2. To skip drive examination press ESC Both options worked for me (yes... I've done this a few times #@^%#! - Matt ...continuing saga to come __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Helps protect you from nasty viruses. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail
Re: [LIB] Cryptic Message at Boot - W2K
Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2005 12:41:06 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] Cryptic Message at Boot - W2K --- Matt Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Select option 1 and go to Screen 4: 1. [X] Inspect startup environment 2. [ ] Verify Windows system files 3. [X] Inspect Boot Sector Leaving the X on line 2 wlll search your W2K installation for any missing or corrupted OS files and replace them from the installation files the setup porgram is running from. Clear the X from option 2 and go to Screen 5: 1. If you have a W2K Emergency Repair Disk press ENTER 2. If you want don't have an ERD press L and setup will attempt to locate for you. I think that's supposed to read, ..setup will attempt to locate W2K installations for you. The Portege 7010CT is new relatively speaking, isn't it Lee? It doesn't suffer from the Int13 extensions problem that our Libbys do, does it? Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2005 12:34:12 -0800 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Add to Address Book To: Libretto libretto@basiclink.com Subject: [LIB] Re. your email Hmmm [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... looking closer there I guess it's not Dan's server having the problem. Matt __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: [LIB] When EZ-Drive is a must for W98 * W2K installations
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 02:24:48 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] When EZ-Drive is a must for W98 * W2K installations After a several approaches at resolving the problem of W98 on C: 8GB not seeing files folders properly on a 8GB G: partition without EZ-Drive, I'm becoming more and more convinced that with some systems, drive overlay may in fact be necessary. In my case, I'm still guessing that it may be due to the extremely large numbers of files folders, and long filenames involved in my backed up data that the FAT32 file system has to deal with. Short Story: - * Re-installing Windows 98 to the 1st primary partition did not resolve the issue. * Creating a new G: logical partition 8GB in Windows 2000's Disk Management and restoring ~19,000 files ~3600 folders from backup did not resolve the issue. Long story: - Note: No drive overlay was present through all of these tests. Re-installing Windows 98: * Booted 110 from FDD, and reformatted primary C: partition as FAT32 * Ran E:\Win98\Setup.exe to install fresh copy of Windows 98 * Ran Windows 98's Scandisk on 8GB G: partition. * All errors found previously were still present. Deleting G: partition and creating a new one in Windows 2000 Disk Management: * W2K balked at deleting the partition saying it was in use by some program. Though I had none running * Put the HDD in desktop and booted from FDD * Ran Ranish part.exe and deleted the G: partition * Put the drive back in 110 and created a new G: partition with W2K Disk Management * Booted 110 from FDD and ran part.exe to confirm logical partition G: type 0c * Rebooted 110 to W2K, and created folder tree for one of the files/folders with a pre-existing problem: G:\My Downloads\File Management\Virtual CD Drive\DAEMON Tools 3.47\ * Copied file daemon347.exe to the folder created * Rebooted into W98 and ran Scandisk on G: * Scandisk reported no problems at that point. * Put the HDD in desktop as slave * Booted the system and copied all previously backed up data from G: back onto G: * Put HDD back in 110 and booted W98 * Ran Scandisk which found seemingly un-ending problems with files and folders. At that point I could use Windows Explorer to look at G:\My MP3s\Rock-Pop and found about 10% of the folders had corrupted names displayed with program characters. * Booted to W2K, and both chkdsk and Windows Explorer there saw no problem files or folders in G:\My MP3s\Rock-Pop * Deleted the entire G:\My MP3s\Rock-Pop folder as well as 5-6 other files W98's Scandisk had found problems with * Rebooted W98 and ran Scandisk which found no problems. * Booted W2K again * Connected 110 to desktop and copied over the G:\My MP3s\Rock-Pop folders and files from backup via ethernet connection * Rebooting 110 into W98, I could immediately see about 70% of the files and folders in G:\My MP3s\Rock-Pop were corrupted New approach - While I was using Ranish Partition Manager, I noticed that the full extended partition was listed as: Type 0f: 'VFAT Extended LBA But each individual portion of the extended partition that contained type 0b 8GB and one 0c 8GB was designated: Type 05: 'Extended * So I decided to change the portion of the extended partition area where the 0c G: lives from 05 to a type 0f, and repeat most everything up to this point. But in the long run, the results were the same. * But during this test process, I copied over files bit by bit. I started by just copying over the folder that had been seeing the largest numbers of errors: G:\My MP3s\Rock-Pop So I copied that and nothing else. * Scandisk in W98 on the 110 found no problems * Back in the desktop I copied over all files from \My MP3s and \My Downloads * Scandisk from W98 in the 110 only found one MP3 folder problem at \My MP3s\Classical Instrumental\E. Power Biggs... and 2 problems in \My Downloads I'd seen before. * Rebooted 110 to W2K and deleted the files folders W98's Scandisk had found problems with * Rebooted top W98 and ran Scandisk to confirm it found no errors on G: * Put HDD in desktop and copied all remaining backed up data to G: (J: on desktop) * With the drive back in the 110, and W98 booted, I found the file system had really gone nuts. Scandisk found file after file from folders on one branch of the directory tree cross-linked with files on other branches of the tree. At that point I gave up... installed EZ-Drive again... ran Scandisk from W98, and it found no errors at all. Since MS-DOS wasn't able to see the G: drive from the DOS prompt with the area of the extended partition it was sitting on set to 0f, I put the HDD back in the desktop (actually before installing EZB) and reset it to 05. Here's one last interesting observation that shows how confused the FAT32 was, and how W98 saw the same data on G differently than W2K did. Early one after the 1st attempt to re-install W98, create a new 0c G:, and restore
Re: [LIB] L50 Reinstall Issues
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 20:09:06 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] L50 Reinstall Issues --- Richard Parkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think it must be something configurable rather than electro-mechanical asI have noticed the ALT key is on the key marked CTRL ;) CTRL should be on the left, and ALT next to it on the right. You're saying that when you press the CTRL key, the system responds as if the ALT key were hit, and visa versa? If so, that's very odd. As for drivers though, are you installing Windows 98, or Windows 98SE? Win98SE hardly needs any Toshiba drivers installed to get the basic system going. At least it would seem the keyboard should work properly with an driverless SE installation if the keyboard itself doesn't have physical problems. You could test it if you had another 50/70CT keyboard to swap. But I'm guessing that's not an option for you. Matt __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Helps protect you from nasty viruses. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail
Re: [LIB] Starting over: W98 on 8GB HDD w/o EZ-Drive
Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2005 14:45:00 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] Starting over: W98 on 8GB HDD w/o EZ-Drive Are there anny other Librettoratti with Windows 98 on a 8GB HDD not using EZ-Drive or other drive overlay out there? David, Lee... you guys out there? --- Philip Nienhuis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can a few people who've set up Win98 their Libbys with 8GB HDDs confirm that W98 from a partition 8GB can run scandisk on partitions 8GB, and not have scandisk see file/folder problems that it doesn't with drive overly installed? Yes I can confirm this. It works with 0c type FAT32 logical partitions, and *NOT* with 0b type (risk of serious data loss). I'm wonder what other people who've put W98 on large, 8GB hard drives have experienced. If you only create primary type 0b partitions, and not logical ones, would you still run into this problem? I must say I find Win2K's scandisk a lot more rigorous. It's funny that MS went retro in W2K, and has gone back to calling the utility 'chkdsk' again from the earlier daze of MS-DOS. But I'm frustrated with it, as I've yet to have it give me any in-depth report on what errors it's found when it runs, and what it plans to do to resolve them. But being new to W2K, perhaps it's logging its corrections somewhere. * Use FDISK to create the biggest partition it can see * Format the partition FAT32 * Copy the W98 installation folder \Win98 to C: in a desktop * Put the drive in the Lib and install W98 * Put the drive in desktop and make a partition or space for Lib hibernation How (with what program) would you do that? If you've installed Win98 in the Lib, and then run it in a dsektop, it will find lots of new HW. I just boot from a floppy. From there I can run DOS versions of partitioning software like Ranish and Partition Magic. * Create whatever number partitions you want 8GB * Put drive back in Lib, and W98 should then be able to handle files folders on partition 8GB Theoretically, it should work out like this (but I never tried it this way, so YMMV), using a desktop with a BIOS with properly implemented int13 extensions. I'm wondering if I can just fix things on this HDD as they are by re-installing W98, and if that's not enough, maybe deleting the G: data drive, creating a new one type 0c, and restoring the data from backup. And I'm still pondering whether or not the FAT32 file system on G: was in fact corrupted when W98's scandisk on C: made corrections to files on G:. I would think W2K's chkdsk would have complained too if that were the fact. I'm also trying to sort out how to go about backing up W2K boot files now on C: so that after a fresh W98 installation there, I can copy them back and have W2K's boot loader start when the system turns on. I guess Boot.ini, Ntldr, Ntdetect.com, and maybe Ntbootdd.sys are the ones, along with the \cmdcons folder and the cmdldr file for the Recovery Console. But I'm not clear yet on whether or not the fresh W98 installation might set something somewhere that will cause the boot sequence to ignore the W2K boot files I copy back. 1. In the lib, on the empty HD make the biggest *primary* partition FDISK can see (it will be almost 8 GB or just more than 8 GB, depending on the type of GB you like (base 10.24 or base 10, the latter = SI). To be sure, just make it about 7.8 MB (base 10.24) smaller (because Windows may create partitions which do not start or end on cylinder boundaries). 2. Put the HD in a desktop. 3. Now use FDISK to assign the rest of the HD space to an extended partition (will probably be type 0F). 4. Make a first logical partition with a minimum size of 71 MB, better make it 78 or even 100 MB (base 10.24). This will be the hibernation space. If needed, you can use PartEd to change the partition type to -say- A0 (= IBM hibernation partition, just for a reminder). 5. Assign other logical partitions as you see fit. (They should be of type 0C automatically) I've been told that FDISK will not in fact create a logical partition of type 0C. That because FDISK doesn't recognize a logical partition as being bootable. And part of the definiation of a type 0c partition is that it is bootable. So if any Libretto folks have created partitions using only FDISK when installing Windows 98(SE) without drive overlay, they should be seeing the same problems with scandisk errors on files and folders on 8GB partitions from what you've described. No? 6. If you didn't change the hibernation partition type, simply delete the first logical partition which was to be the hibernation space. 7. Put the HD back in the Lib. 8. Install W98, don't let it touch the partition layout but simply specify it to install in C:\Win98 or C:\WINDOWS at your discretion. 9. Using W98, format the logical partitions. 10. Ready. That sounds pretty close to what I laid out, plus filling in some details. However I never went
Re: [LIB] When EZ-Drive is a must for W98 * W2K installations
Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2005 16:57:06 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] When EZ-Drive is a must for W98 * W2K installations --- Philip Nienhuis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But I did allow scandisk to repair a couple of these errors last week before switching C: from 0b to 0c. Do you think that when I allowed scandisk to convert those folders and files to recovered data files, it also wrote changes to FATs that are confusing it now that the C: partition has been changed from 0b to 0c? This is all pretty confusing to me. ;-P Yes I think that is possible. Thanks for all your feedback on this Philip. Seems I ought to be able to get W98 to install so that it doesn't have problems with files/folders on 8GB partitions. I may try re-installing W98, and then maybe both W98 and a new G: partition with file restored from backup if the basic W98 re-install doesn't work. Winamp problem may be related to something totally different. I don't know, I can't check it from here :-) That was a 'Doh!' revelation for me the other day. I finally remebered that I moved those M3U files to a sub-folder from where they were created some time back. From there there the relative paths didn't work anymore. There were only a few amony many that only had the relative paths set. So it took quite a while for me to load one again, and discover the problem. And then quite a while to jog my memory about moving those files. I'll start a new thread on setting up W98 without E-Drive. Seems I should be able to fix what I've already set up by going that way. Matt __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Helps protect you from nasty viruses. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail
[LIB] Starting over: W98 on 8GB HDD w/o EZ-Drive
Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2005 17:00:32 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Starting over: W98 on 8GB HDD w/o EZ-Drive Seems I should be able to get a copy of Windows 98 set up on the C: drive of this 40GB HDD without EZ-Drive overlay in a way that it can deal with files folders properly on partitions above the 8GB barrier. Can a few people who've set up Win98 their Libbys with 8GB HDDs confirm that W98 from a partition 8GB can run scandisk on partitions 8GB, and not have scandisk see file/folder problems that it doesn't with drive overly installed? There have been numerous posts on the subject of installing W98 without EZ-Drive, so it seems most people aren't seeing the problems I've been seeing with this dual-boot setup for W98 and W2K. If I recall correctly, setting up W98 on a 8GB HDD with out EZ-Drive goes basically like this: * Use FDISK to create the biggest partition it can see * Format the partition FAT32 * Copy the W98 installation folder \Win98 to C: in a desktop * Put the drive in the Lib and install W98 * Put the drive in desktop and make a partition or space for Lib hibernation * Create whatever number partitions you want 8GB * Put drive back in Lib, and W98 should then be able to handle files folders on partition 8GB I think that's basically what I did at one point, and I don't recall having scandisk run into the problems I've been seeing with my setup now where it finds corrupted files and folders. I know that Partition Magic wouldn't be able to see past 8GB without EZ-Drive. But it seems scandisk had no problems with such a setup. Right? Matt __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Helps protect you from nasty viruses. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail
Re: [LIB] When EZ-Drive is a must for W98 * W2K installations
Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 16:56:24 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] When EZ-Drive is a must for W98 * W2K installations --- Philip Nienhuis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think what happened on you Lib is that initially scandisk got confused because of the 0b setting (it doesn't use LBA disk translation then) and screwed up the file system, including your Daemon Tools subdir. Now that you converted it to 0c, scandisk can at last do a proper job and obviously finds the file system and in particular, that subdir has been screwed up. I didn't allow scandisk to make that change on the Daemon Tools subdir when I ran it the other day. It popped up that message, and gave me the option to repair or quit. Having seen the damage fixing the error did once last week, I've been quitting, and either running chkdsk from W2K to check for problems on that drive, or installing EZD and running scandisk again from W98. And with EZB, scandisk finds no problems. But I did allow scandisk to repair a couple of these errors last week before switching C: from 0b to 0c. Do you think that when I allowed scandisk to convert those folders and files to recovered data files, it also wrote changes to FATs that are confusing it now that the C: partition has been changed from 0b to 0c? This is all pretty confusing to me. ;-P Data partitions aren't really affected by the change from type 0b to 0c, right? The change only affects booting from a partition, in that the partition is seen as Windows FAT32 LBA as type 0c, and just Windows FAT32 as type 0b. So I guess I could just leave things as they are with EZD installed. But I am still having problems with Winamp not being able to find MP3s on G: that are listed in its ACSII M3U playlist files. And that's running Winamp from W2K. Tho' I really have no idea if the two file/folder issues are related. How about I delete the C: partition, create a new one as 0c, restore a 'vanilla' image of W98. And delete the G: partition, create a new one, 0b or 0c probably doesn't matter for a data partition, and restore the data from backup on the desktop. Or do you think W2K may still be playing a part here? If I created a new C: and restored a W98 image, I'd have to run W2K setup again so it can boot from C:. Matt __ Do you Yahoo!? The all-new My Yahoo! - Get yours free! http://my.yahoo.com
Re: [LIB] When EZ-Drive is a must for W98 * W2K installations
Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2005 17:22:31 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] When EZ-Drive is a must for W98 * W2K installations Philip, Thought I'd 1st try a quick and easy route of addressing the problems I've been having by trying converting partition types as you had pointed out. I got Ranish Partition Manager to convert all of the 0b FAT32 partitions to 0c FAT32 LBA partitions on my 110 HDD, and made the changes. But these file/folder problems for W98 persist. I uninstalled EZD, popped the HDD out of the 110, put it in the desktop, booted from the FDD, ran Ranish part.exe and did the partition type conversion. That process was as easy as highlighting a partition, pressing the 'Ins' key, and moving the highlight bar down one notch from 0b to 0c for each partition, and saving the changes. After converting the partition types leaving EZD uninstalled, I put the HDD back in the 110, booted into W98 on C: and ran Scandisk on the G: partition above 8GB. It only took a few seconds to come up with a folder error there: --- G:\My Downloads\File Management\Virtual CD Drive\DAEMON Tools 3.47 This folder is invalid. Although it is marked as a folder, its contents do not appear to be valid. Scandisk repairs this error by converting this folder into a file. NOTE: If you choose to repair this error, make sure you recover lost file fragments later. If files in this folder were named using an international character set other than the one you are using now, click Cancel, and then refer to the Readme.txt file. --- That was the folder for the freeware virtual CD program Jim Drouillard pointed me to recently (thanks Jim!). If you have W98 as C: on your system, W2K on a logical drive 8GB, and some partition 8GB you could use, I wonder if you could do a test and try setting up a path and file like mine above. And then try running Scandisk on that 8GB partition from your W98 on C: to see if it finds the same problem. I'd guess that for test purposes it wouldn't matter if you didn't have the file daemon347.exe in the '\DAEMON Tools 3.47' as I do, but it wouldn't hurt to duplicate as much as what I've got here as possible. daemon347.exe is here: http://www.daemon-tools.cc/dtcc/portal/download.php?mode=ViewCategorycatid=5 or directly to the file download: http://www.daemon-tools.cc/dtcc/portal/download.php?mode=Downloadid=34 Thanks for your feedback on all this Philip. Matt __ Do you Yahoo!? Meet the all-new My Yahoo! - Try it today! http://my.yahoo.com
Re: [LIB] dma
Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2005 01:36:09 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] dma --- Philip Nienhuis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Using a cardbus CDRW/DVD combo (Freecom Traveler II+), DVD playback under Win2K on a L110 is a bit choppy but not so much that all fun is spoiled. (save for the noise of the combo player). Having played around with a USB 2.0 interface card a bit now, I'm stoked at how much faster it can transfer MP3 files back and forth to CF media. The processing chip on the card really speeds things up over what the Libbys are set up for on their own. I'd think a USB 2.0 CDRW/DVD drive would speed up the i/o process for any kind of video playback too. Matt __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: [LIB] upgrading the memory in the 110CT
Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 13:57:15 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] upgrading the memory in the 110CT --- John Musielewicz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: next month I am going to upgrade the memory in my 110CT. I am going to upgrade to 256MB. I am doing 256 because I am unable to find the right chips to go to 512. Wish me luck--!!. the only problem I forsee is I'll fry a system chip with the soldering. Those are really hard to find!! Hey John Having more memory in the 110 will be nice, no doubt. But it seems I recall reading and hearing serveral sources in the past that have said that there's an upper limit on just how much memory will in fact speed a system/OS up significantly. What parameters are involved there I don't know. It may very well be that you wouldn't really see much difference in performance between having 256MB or 512MB of RAM in the little Libby. But as you've probably deduced at this point, I'm not as aware of the specifics of system operations as those of you who actually work on these little demons on a day to day basis. But good luck! Though it's been discussed a lot, I don't think anyone has really tackled an attempt at actually stuffing more RAM into a Lib. Matt __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Find what you need with new enhanced search. http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250
Re: [LIB] When EZ-Drive is a must for W98 * W2K installations
Date: Sun, 26 Dec 2004 14:40:52 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] When EZ-Drive is a must for W98 * W2K installations --- Philip Nienhuis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But FAT32 partitions in the extended partition beyond 8 GB need to be type 0c (Win95 FAT32 LBA in Linux terms) rather than 0b (plain FAT32). I've had lots of trouble when I did not obey this rule. I saw your FAT32 partitions were 0b. I think this might be the cause of your W98 scandisk problems. If PM made these partitions (-types) I'd definitely dump it. Yeah... PM made those while I had the the HDD was in the desktop to get around the Libby's Int13 extensions problem. The reason I keep using PM is because it's the only thing I have that can perform certain tasks like moving and resizing partitions, and converting partitions from one type to another. However I don't see where it'd be able to convert a type 0b partition to 0c Is there something available free that can either create or convert existing logical 0b partitions to 0c? The Ranish Partition Manager perhaps? * Again with EZD installed and in the 110, partinfo says the system reports 4863 cylinders instead of the 4864 partinfo sees in the partition table, and makes a note of the error. The one cylinder difference is due to a cylinder (cyl #0, the otherwise regular MBR cylinder) which EZD reserves for itself; it shifts the rest of the cylinders, so the system or operating systems see only 4863. While they think the MBR is on cyl. #0, it really is on #1. Okay... thanks for explaining that Philip. Make sure to always let EZD initialize before running any other partitioning program or operating system. Mixing up EZD-cooked-up and raw views of the HD will lead to interesting situations. Is there a chance that such a mix-up occurred on you Lib HDD (e.g., unattended reboot during Win2K installation)? No... I never had EZD installed during any W2K installation procedure. I was convinced by posts here that I wasn't going to be needing EZB for W98 or W2K anymore. For some reason the system was locking up in DOS the other night. Ctrl-Alt-Del didn't reboot, the power switch didn't shut it down, and the reboot switch didn't reboot. Had to pull the AC and battery pack numerous times. From my experiences with both the desktop w/multiple HDDs and this 110, it seems a CMOS/BIOS setting thing. Sometimes the system wouldn't boot at all. No red 'Toshiba' splash screem. No nada. Letting the system sit, and I presume the CMOS to discharge, the system with finally boot again Could it be that your Lib HW is starting to get flakey? Not 'starting'... it was flakey from the 1st moment I built the system from this used 110 MB and a used 100 case I bought, using parts from my busted up old 110 to fill out the remaining parts. The 1st problem I had was that the ribbon harness in the new case didn't work. Then the RAM kept disappearing, and I had to reseat it to get it back. The problems I mentioned in my last post went away after I opened up the case and reseated everything. As this hasn't been happening as much as it had when I 1st put things together, I hadn't pursued getting a can of contact cleaning spray. I'm not 100% sure dirty connector contacts is the problem, but the odds at this point seem to point to it. And... I was able to get the lost copy of W2K to boot again too. I just ran \i386\winnnt as you confirmed, and chose to repair an existing installation. I was asked to insert an Emergency Repair disk if I had one which I did, and the problem was fixed in an instant. Still haven't gone back and done it for the 2nd copy of W2K though. Matt __ Do you Yahoo!? Read only the mail you want - Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail
Re: [LIB] When EZ-Drive is a must for W98 * W2K installations
Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2004 15:26:09 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] When EZ-Drive is a must for W98 * W2K installations --- Jim Drouillard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not familiar with Farstone but I'd recommend trying the free Daemon-Tools (www.daemon-tools.cc). The downside is it doesn't compress images like Norton Virtual Drive (which I had a few years ago) but the upside is that it mounts most common CD image formats [.iso, .ccd (CloneCD), .nrg (Nero), etc.]. Thanks for the tip Jim. Seems the Farstone program is having problems auto-loading images to a drive letter in Win2000 when it boots. Kind of a problem as I keep forgetting to load it manually when I run Delorme, and have to reload Delorme. The new version takes quite a while to load. I've downloaded Daemon-Tools and will give it a try. Hopefully it'll be happier in W2K than Farstone is. Matt __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Easier than ever with enhanced search. Learn more. http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250
[LIB] When EZ-Drive is a must for W98 * W2K installations
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 01:47:49 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: When EZ-Drive is a must for W98 * W2K installations I need help recovering the ability to boot W2K. I've been having all kinds of FAT32 file system problems after finally deciding to install W2K on a D: logical drive, and have it set up dual booting with W98 on the primary C: partition. I know how you feel about drive overlay Philip... but it appears that in order to deal with the long file and folder names I have for my MP3 library on my E: drive after the 8GB boundary, I have to have EZ-Drive installed. I'll address that below, but at the top here, I need help recovering the ability to boot W2K on D:. Because of problems with W98 not having drive overlay installed, the C: partition files were blown apart attempting to copy folders of MP3s from D: (before 8GB) to E: (after 8GB). Suddenly I had no access to any programs in W98, and there were no folders or files in \Program Files any more. Installing EZ-Drive brought back access to many of them, but most were too corrupted to be of any use. Thing is that the boot files for W2K were on the root of the W98 C: partition, and they were totally blown away. So I've restored a W98 image to C:, but I need to repair W2K's boot data. People are telling me to run the set of 4 W2K setup floppies, and run a repair process from there. But I'm wondering if I can just run x:\i386\winnt from my E: partition, and repair things from there. Anyone know if that will work? Okay... Here's a list of problems that I've had relating to not having EZ-Drive installed. And I'm convinced that my problems stemmed from having enormously long file/folder names, as my nested MP3 folders were always the 1st to have problems being read in W98: * The 1st clue was after many W98 crashes, Scandisk in windows (I skip the slow DOS process) complained about broken file chains on E:. After accepting an option to repair by deleting the files once, I aborted the next problem it found, booted to W2K and ran Chkdsk there. But Chkdisk found no problems with the file system on E: * Many file folder names on E: 8GB showed up in W98 as program characters, and Scandisk would want to delete them, and save the data in chk files. * Related to above, I managed to resolve some problems with 'corrupted' filenames in W98 that W2K saw fine by creating a new folder in W2K, coping the files in it to the new folder, deleting the old folder, and renaming this new folder to match the old. Booting into W98, the file names appeared properly. This is before I discovered that drive overlay fixed all these problems. * Winamp was taking an hour or more to load MP3s on E: to its library from the W98 C: installation. After installing EZ-Drive (and reinstalling Winamp in the original copy of W98), it only took a couple minutes to load the MP3s into the library. * While playing MP3s on E: in Winamp, I could hardly multitask, and couldn't without the audio breaking up. With DO, no problem. * Ghost definitely needs EZ-Drive. That's how I came to the final conclusion DO might have been at the root of the problems with my FAT32 file system in the past couple weeks. I restored a W98 image to C: without DO installed, and W98 complained at boot about missing files listed in system.ini, and only a few of the programs worked after boot. With DO installed, the restored image ran fine. But now to repairing access to W2K??? Matt __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: [LIB] When EZ-Drive is a must for W98 * W2K installations
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 14:05:21 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] When EZ-Drive is a must for W98 * W2K installations Hey Philip... Have read through yours and John's replies and have archived them for reference. Will be very busy for the next few days, so I'm not sure if I'll get some time to do much experimentation more than getting access to W2K again. But quick... with the 256 LFN thing... I still think there may be an issue there. I know I'm supposed to have 256 character supportin W98, but even before this recent partition change and installing W2K to dual-boot with W98, I was having problems with W98 and LFNs. I'd rip a CD with EAC (Exact Audio Copy) with tag info from the free CDDA, and, esp. classical music, end up with file names above the ~110 - 120 (?) character limit that up to recently Nero couldn't burn to CD-R. Though the Nero issue is an entirely different file system issue. Aside from Nero though, W98 would balk at moving the ripped files from the rip folder to the classical sub-folder in my main MP3 folder. I'd have to shorten the file names down to, I think it was below 110-112 (can't remember excatly, but it was around there) before W98 would even let me move them. So something was going on there that challanged the 256 character thing for some reason, and may have coontributed to my recent problems no se. As for partitioning and formatting, I did that with Partition Magic in DOS with the drive set up in my desktop. So I didn't think there shouldn't have been any issues there, as the desktop hasn't had any Int13ext problems to my knowledge in the past. Tho' I did first install W98 onto the 1st primary partition C: from the \Win98 files\folder on a E: partition, and then W2K on the 1st of 4 logical drives from \i386 on E:. The partitions look like this: C: 1st primary FAT32 3GB W98 had plenty of virtual memory area. Extended 37GB D: 1st logical FAT32 2.5GB W2K E: 2nd logical FAT32 1GB Data F: 3rd logical FAT32 1.5GB W2K to slim down, never used yet ~64MB Empty at 8GB on cyls 1016-1027 that have always worked G: 4th logical FAT32 30GB MP3 and general data There was the thing with W98 seeing the last drive as G:, and W2K's Disk Management changing the drive letter to E: so MP3 M3U playlists could find the MP3s previously set to E:. But when scandisk found problems that didn't exist with chkdsk on W2K, and the file names scandisk reported were in fact MP3 file names that live on that last 30GB partition. Ciao for now, Matt __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: [LIB] Question on W2000 partitioning
Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2004 05:57:46 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] Question on W2000 partitioning I just realized that I may not be able to do a new installation of W2K on the 1st primary partition of this 40GB HDD, and have it dual-boot the copy of W98 that's living on the 2nd primary partition that follows it. That copy of W98 thinks it's installed on C:, as Partition Magic hid the 1st partition with W2K on it when I created that 2nd partition and made it active. If I were to make both partitions visable when I re-install W2K, then W98 will find itself on a D: partition. I'm guessing W98 is not going to like that any more than W2K would have liked its image restored and thinned down further down the drive at E: or beyond. Or is W2K's boot manager capable of hiding W2K's partition when W98 is booted and visa versa? Can I leave the W98 partition hidden when I install W2K, and then have W2K's boot manager set things up to boot both OSs as C:? To answer you question about why I hide partitions a Philip, I remembered something in the process of experimenting with Partition Magic tonight. It's something PM does automatically when you already have a primary partition with an OS on the HDD. When you create a new primary partition, PM will hide that new partition by default. If you make it active, PM will hide the existing primary partition with an OS on it by default. Through the years I guess I've just been accepting with what PM was doing automatically. Matt PS: Just caught your last post as I was submitting this one Philip. I see now that W2K can create partitions. However it doesn't seem to deal with hiding or unhiding partitions PM plays with, nor rezize and/or move partitions. From what you say about FDISK running from a desktop that fully supports Int13 extensions, it would seem that running FDISK /MBR on a HDD from the Lib that way should work properly. I'm having problems with PM changing the order of drive letters when I insert a primary C: partition between the 1st primary, and the 33GB extended partition that straddles the 8GB boundary with logical D: and E: partitions on it. It keeps lettering the new 2nd partition F:, but I suppose that's not a major issue. It can always be re-mapped in Windows. Wonder if all partitioning software does that. Sounds like I can just install a 2nd copy of W2K as a logical drive without having to do further tweaks. You say you tweaked the registries of each of your 3 Windows OSs to share folders. But that's not necessary, is it? I can just install W2K to a logical drive, and be able to boot W2K1, W98, and W2K2 individually... yes? And then later tweak things to share folders if I get to it. Does what you're saying about multi-booting mean W2K1's boot manager will take over booting all 3 OSs? And does that answer my question about the boot manager above? I'll get a boot menu with each of the 3 OSs including and option to start the installed Recovery Console? Or will the Recovery Console option get skipped until the copy of W2K1 or W2K2 is selected? Big question though is this deal of hiding. The only way can see my present W98 partition working is if it can be booted as C: Is that going to happen? And this: -- In the end, what matters is what has been written in the MBR. No program will ever ask the BIOS for HD size, nor will any operating system; they will just accept the entries in the MBR. I'm not sure if that's true with Partition Magic, is it? Even after the partition tables are set up with partitioning software on a desktop fully supporting int13 extensions, when the drive is pit into the Lib, PM still cannot see all the partitions from Windows or DOS correctly without drive overlay installed. Ironic, as I can boot the Lib from a FD, and run DOS programs on partitions 8GB from the command prompt without problems. That's why using other disk partitioning SW than DOS/Win9x FDISK or partitioning the HD in another PC will very effectively bypass the Libretto's 8 GB HD size barrier. I had to re-read that. You're saying that using partitioning software other than DOS/Win9x based programs can effectively bypass the Lib's 8GB handicap... yes. Meaning that PM, being DOS/Win9x based, just doesn't hack it... yes? __ Do you Yahoo!? Read only the mail you want - Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail
Re: [LIB] Question on W2000 partitioning
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 16:33:08 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] Question on W2000 partitioning Sounds like the best way to go at this point is to start with W98 on drive 1, and do a fresh installation of W2K on drive 0. But I do want to have a thinned down copy of W2K on the system too. How did you go about accomplishing that one Philip? I don't quite see how you got around the conflicts with GUIds written to disk, as well as registry conflicts etc. when you set up 2 copies of W2K. I guess that's what I need to know before going further. I'm guessing that you run that from a command prompt from within W2K, right? If I booted the system from a No! you should do that from a pure booted-into-DOS prompt - according to Microsoft's Knowledge base, that is. But! you can also do it from a Win2K Recovery Console, it may be something like FIXMBR or so. Perhaps a better option because it won't wipe the 8GB partitions. Yes... From W2K's onlone Help: - Fixboot Writes a new partition boot sector onto the system partition. Fixmbr Repairs the master boot record of the partition boot sector. - With the warning: - If an invalid or nonstandard partition table signature is detected, you will be prompted whether you want to continue. If you are not having problems accessing your drives, you should not continue. Writing a new master boot record to your system partition could damage your partition tables and cause your partitions to become inaccessible. - (I'm so used to OS/2's FDISK and Linux cfdisk that I forgot that Win9x FDISK has the 8 GB barrier.) Is it a limitation of FDISK, or a system's BIOS, or both? I've been putting my Lib's 40GB HDD in my desktop to partition after the 8GB boundry with PM. If I booted the drive on the desktop from a W98 boot floppy and ran FDISK /MBR from the floppy, would FDISK still not be able to see the entire drive, and go ahead and create a corrupted MBR? about PM ..if you want to do any partitioning with Partition Magic at all from within Windows on a 8GB HDD, you have to install EZ-Drive. Otherwise the PM partition GUI will run right off the right side of the screen, and I assume PM won't partition correctly. Yes but Win2K's disk management combines EZ-drive + (most of) PM. So I can that see by browsing the menus in W2K's Disk Managment. Guess it doesn't create partitions tho'. snip Is there no way of installing W98 onto another partition after installing W2K, and then getting W2K to dual-boot both? I've put in so many hours setting (Didn't you say it's a hobby?) Heh... Yeah... But at all to many hair raising points it seems one God(s) has(have) plagued me with. 8-0 Must be possible. Should be something like this: - Use bootpart (www.winimage.com) to save the Win2K boot sector from C: - Install Win98 on another partition then where you've put Win2K - Restore boot sector on C: - Add a stanza to boot.ini for Win98 (check in your current boot.iniwhat it looks like) The vital thing is to save the Win2K boot sector. Hmmm... ...snip Or if I have to reinstall W2K, how about restoring a W98 image to drive 1, and then do a fresh install of W2K on drive 0? That would be the easiest. Win2K will fix the boot menu for you while installing. Okay... Ther main question now is how to go about this, and be able to have a 2nd thinnned down copy of W2K co-exist with the one on drive 0? I'll brace myself for your reply on that one. ;-P Matt __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: [LIB] Enhanced Port Replicator help required
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 16:37:46 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] Enhanced Port Replicator help required Hi Pete... I'm having a similar problem with my 110, tho' not with the EPR. My 110 get's a blank screen at boot with no Toshiba splash screen or anything after doing things like partitioning in a desktop and adding or removing EZ-Drive. Just now I discovered that Win2000's Recovery Console was corrupted, and wouldn't load at boot. So I removed it manually booted into Win2000 and rebooted. Then I reinstalled it, but then Win2000 refused to boot at all. So I booted from a floppy and manually removed the Recovery Console using the same process of deleting c:\cmdcons, a file c*.??, and removing the reference to the Recovery Console in boot.ini. When I rebooted, and got no splash screen and just a blank sceen. In the past I've found that if I just leave the system sit over for a period of time like overnight, and then try again, it'll start to boot again. It's a mystery to me. Mayby someone else can explain this. I never had the problem on my 100, 70 or 50. Matt --- Pete Phillipps [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2004 19:17:32 - From: Pete Phillipps [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [LIB] Enhanced Port Replicator help required Hi Everyone, I have got an EPR at last but my Libretto 110 does not want to boot when I put it in the EPR. There is definitely power going into it as the Battery and DC In LEDs are both Green, and when you press the power button the Power and Disc LEDs are both Green. Beyond that nothing happens, the Toshiba screen does not appear, no beeps, nothing. Pressing the power button has no effect, even pressing CTRL+ALT+DEL or the Reset switch have not effect. Does anyone have any idea what I am doing wrong? Pete --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.801 / Virus Database: 544 - Release Date: 24/11/2004 __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
