Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 18:46:13 From: "neil barnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] Hello new user and please help
>Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 10:06:00 -0000 >From: "Eyetech Technical" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Hello new user and please help > >Hi everyone, > >I've been given a Libretto 100CT machine because it is not working quite >correctly. > >It has both Windows 98 and 2000 installed on a 20Gb drive with 64Mb and is >clocked to 266MHz. > >When I try to boot the machine, some times it works, and others, the screen >will do strange things like shift out of place, or the sound will get >corrupted. Once in Win 2000 the usual result is a random hang, with nothing >working, power button or reset, so I have to remove the AC and battery to >reboot the machine. >Sometimes I also do not even get the Toshiba BIOS logo. > >Ive found that if this happens once, the only way to fix it is to remove >the >hard drive and boot up. The machine reports no drive, then putting it back >in and rebooting will allow the machine to work again for perhaps a couple >of hours. > >I am told that this has just started happening the last two days and the >machine has been very reliable for a couple of years overclocked. >It was dropped the other day, but surely that would just affect the hard >drive? > >Does anyone have any suggestions for what I might try to solve the random >hangs? >Im tempted to clock it back to the manufacturer's specs, but would prefer >trying everything else before opening it up. > > Likeliest option is the RAM expansion. Try removing that first and rebooting with 32M. _________________________________________________________________ Join the world’s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com ************************************************************** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://libretto.basiclink.com/archive - Archives http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/faq.html - FAQ -------TO UNSUBSCRIBE------- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe --------TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST------ Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **************************************************************
