Who? My old steam driven Compaq Armada E500 (stop sniggering at the back) refuses to boot up. I use it down in the garage when I need an online manual, or to read a cd one. I know it needs a battery, but it used to work fine off the mains charger until it stopped booting up. -- Lozzo Suzuki SV650S K5 Honda CBR600 FW trackbike Yamaha SR250 Spazz-Trakka Suzuki GSXR750 L Suzuki TS50X Suzuki TS50X
It's meant to boot in Win XP Pro. it gets as far as the screen with the flag and scrolling horizontal bar, then goes to a backlit plain dark screen. At this point the innards start making frog type noises and it jkust hangs there for a couple of minutes before shutting down and starting again. When you first fire it up it defaults to a screen telling me to choose the mode to start, i.e 'Safe mode' etc. If I pick either dsafe mode it scrolls a load of code lines and hangs then starts frog noises. if I pick last known config or start in windows it does the flag screen bit. -- Lozzo Suzuki SV650S K5 Honda CBR600 FW trackbike Yamaha SR250 Spazz-Trakka Suzuki GSXR750 L Suzuki TS50X Suzuki TS50X
Ah yes, I remember now - but this thing is ancient, I wonder if he'll touch it. -- Lozzo Suzuki SV650S K5 Honda CBR600 FW trackbike Yamaha SR250 Spazz-Trakka Suzuki GSXR750 L Suzuki TS50X Suzuki TS50X
Sounds like the hard drive is shagged, or the OS is corrupt. Try a reinstall, followed by a new hard drive. P.
<fx: donning flame-proof suit> OK so it POSTs OK and only collapses when it tries to load WinXP Pro. If you have another computer that works I would suggest d/l'ing a 'live CD ' of any linux distro. I'd use www.linuxmint.com, but then I would, wouldn't I. PCPro recently had an ISO of SuSE on its cover CD. It really doesn't matter which distro you choose, Puppy linux is a nice small one. Boot from the live CD and see if the rest of the laptop is working. If so it's either a corrupt Windows (re-install) or possibly a shagged hard disk (the live CD should have the tools to test this). Take appropriate action. If you don't have the facilities to d/l a distro I will happily burn and send you a CD if you send me a snail-mail addy. Genuine offer, no strings attached.
I can always have a look. If it's a hard drive, then shouldn't be too difficult, if it's the controller or other motherboard problem it probably won't be worth playing with. Is there any data on it that you "must have" and haven't got backed up? Fixing ancient pooters, (DEC stuff springs to mind!) & modern stuff, is what we do. email addy works if cleared and you should have my mobbly in your archive someplace. I owe you a favour anyway ;o) -- Greybeard FLHR -03 UK (95 cu-in Stg 2. Big Boy2!) Trumpet Trophy 1200-03 Garmin Zumo 550, To get me home! ukrm@foxtails[dot]co[dot]uk
Cool, gissa job. I can do that. I'm probably one of the few on here that has played with a DEBNA, KFQSA or a QBus MIcroVAX Apart from Auvache of course. P.
Sounds like the disk has died. Replace disk and reinstall, recover from the backups that you carefully preserved.
I lost the will to live right about here. -- Lozzo Suzuki SV650S K5 Honda CBR600 FW trackbike Yamaha SR250 Spazz-Trakka Suzuki GSXR750 L Suzuki TS50X Suzuki TS50X
There's bugger all of any interest on it, totally blank as far as I'm aware. I'll arrange a time and place to meet via email. Cheers -- Lozzo Suzuki SV650S K5 Honda CBR600 FW trackbike Yamaha SR250 Spazz-Trakka Suzuki GSXR750 L Suzuki TS50X Suzuki TS50X
Perhaps it's overheating - try blowing through the vent holes with a can of air. -- Dan L Too much time to think, too little to do. http://thebikeshed.spaces.live.com/ 1996 Kawasaki ZR1100 Zephyr BOTAFOT #140 (KotL 2005/6/7) X-FOT#000 DIAABTCOD #26 BOMB#18 (slow) OMF#11
I like the last bit! <VBG> -- Greybeard FLHR -03 UK (95 cu-in Stg 2. Big Boy2!) Trumpet Trophy 1200-03 Garmin Zumo 550, To get me home! ukrm@foxtails[dot]co[dot]uk
That it makes it very easy then. I'll try an install of XP Pro, that'll show up any disc weaknesses, I can sort a disk if needed after that. Let me know when, where, how & what at your convenience. -- Greybeard FLHR -03 UK (95 cu-in Stg 2. Big Boy2!) Trumpet Trophy 1200-03 Garmin Zumo 550, To get me home! ukrm@foxtails[dot]co[dot]uk
That could be the case, as the little fans so cause the heatsinks of lapdog to block up solidly. But it normally takes a little longer than initial boot to overheat and shutdown. Symptoms don't seem quite right for overheat though. -- Greybeard FLHR -03 UK (95 cu-in Stg 2. Big Boy2!) Trumpet Trophy 1200-03 Garmin Zumo 550, To get me home! ukrm@foxtails[dot]co[dot]uk
had the same problem on my acer , had to have the hard drive changed because there was a faulty sector on it . just change the hard drive reinstall windows and you should be ok keep your old hard drive , for a £10.00 you can get g tech enclosures , stick your old hard drive in that and you should be able to retrieve most of the infomation on it steve --
More burntmail's territory, that. -- Dave GS850x2 XS650 SE6a "It's a moron working with power tools. How much more suspenseful can you get?" - House
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Lozzo wrote: || Who? || || My old steam driven Compaq Armada E500 (stop sniggering at the back) || refuses to boot up. I use it down in the garage when I need an online || manual, or to read a cd one. I know it needs a battery, but it used || to work fine off the mains charger until it stopped booting up. || If its got 2 DIMMS, try swapping them over.. it looks like there may be a duff block of memory if nothing else has changed. Either that or the disk may be going tits up. =========================== KM FJ1200 FZS600 GSX400F http://www.czd.org.uk
