Sheesh, hte more O look the more I discover... oh well. I'll clip this time. On Tue, 2007-03-27 at 22:49 -0500, Kent West wrote: > Not Debian-related at all, but you folks are brilliant, so I'll ask anyway. > > A friend brought her HP Pavilion ze5170 laptop to me the other day; she > said her hard drive had died, and she ordered a new one, and on > installing it she could never get the System Restore CDs to restore the > system. She also wanted to set up the laptop to dual-boot with Debian, > which is why she brought it to me.
Original drive might be good. > The BIOS seems to function. (But she did mention that the BIOS does not > keep time; perhaps a dead BIOS battery (do laptops have those?) is > corrupting some boot-level code of the BIOS without making the BIOS > totally screwy?) Yes, Laptops do have a battery for the BIOS. That maybe what kicked off the problems in the first place. > So what could explain these symptoms? (I don't expect a fix; I'm just > hoping for an explanation.) BIOS need an update and you still need to manually set the hard drive specs and "disable the ultra DMA" to yes. On top of that , the SMART functions on the ze5XXX laptops are a bit awkward, so you might want to disable the smart stuff. -- greg, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Novell's Directory Services is a competitive product to Microsoft's Active Directory in much the same way that the Saturn V is a competitive product to those dinky little model rockets that kids light off down at the playfield. -- Thane Walkup -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
