Re: OT: Hardware diagnostic

2007-04-09 Thread Kent West
Kent West wrote: Kent West wrote: [Laptop not booting from any hard drive, but fine from CD] Thanks, Greg! Your hints to tinker with the drive's BIOS settings paid off. And to you and Joe, I'll look into replacing the BIOS battery also. Thanks! Replaced the battery; the laptop seems to b

Re: OT: Hardware diagnostic

2007-03-28 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 10:10 -0500, Kent West wrote: > Kent West wrote: > > Not Debian-related at all, but you folks are brilliant > > Didn't I say you folks were brilliant?! > > Thanks, Greg! Your hints to tinker with the drive's BIOS settings paid > off. Here's what I finally settled on th

Re: OT: Hardware diagnostic

2007-03-28 Thread Kent West
Kent West wrote: Not Debian-related at all, but you folks are brilliant Didn't I say you folks were brilliant?! Thanks, Greg! Your hints to tinker with the drive's BIOS settings paid off. Here's what I finally settled on that works: LBA Mode = Enabled 32 Bit I/O = Enabled Transfer Mode

Re: OT: Hardware diagnostic

2007-03-28 Thread Joe
Greg Folkert wrote: Yes, Laptops do have a battery for the BIOS. That maybe what kicked off the problems in the first place. That did occur to me when I saw the thread. My son's new motherboard seemed completely unusable, sometimes the BIOS would see the drives, sometimes not. Much of the tim

Re: OT: Hardware diagnostic

2007-03-27 Thread Kent West
Greg Folkert wrote: Sheesh, hte more O look the more I discover... oh well. I'll clip this time. Thanks for all the ideas, Greg! They actually give me some hope. I'll look at the machine again tomorrow and see what I discover. -- Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a s

Re: OT: Hardware diagnostic

2007-03-27 Thread Greg Folkert
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 har

Re: OT: Hardware diagnostic

2007-03-27 Thread Greg Folkert
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 coul

Re: OT: Hardware diagnostic

2007-03-27 Thread Greg Folkert
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 coul

OT: Hardware diagnostic

2007-03-27 Thread Kent West
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. Sh