Cant get pass bios screen
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Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2004 5:44 pmPosted: Wed Jun 16, 2004 5:51 pmPosted: Wed Jun 16, 2004 5:59 pmPosted: Wed Jun 16, 2004 7:24 pmPosted: Thu Jun 17, 2004 12:26 amNo new hardware installed, no new programs. I know about removing the cmos battery but I never removed one from a laptop. I actually think it is the hard drive.. I believe it is sitting there and trying to find the hard drive but its not recoginizing it. So I am going to try another hard drive and see what happens.
Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2004 1:27 amyou should be able to test your hard drive theory by simply removing it from your system. I removed a failed hard drive from an older laptop and just use the CD-Rom drive to boot to knoppix (a linux distribution that runs completely from a CD)
I can't save favorates or anything, but it's great to be able to look up information without having to go to the dungeon (my computer's in the basement)
I can't save favorates or anything, but it's great to be able to look up information without having to go to the dungeon (my computer's in the basement)
Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2004 1:47 amYeah I am going to test that and see what happens... I am gonna look for another hard drive though to see if it will work... Thanks for the advice though... I will let u know what happens
Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2004 2:21 amPosted: Thu Jun 17, 2004 1:39 pmI understand that but on the laptop it says 2100 no other number and I cant find another number on it.... I know how to read model numbers and thats all thats on there...
Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2004 11:39 pmOk it was the hard drive, I replaced the hard drive and it worked no problem...thanks for all the replies