Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 15:02:20 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Hanson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: [LIB] Dead L110
I spoke/wrote too soon Dick. I don't know what's going on now. The system didn't want to boot consistantly after I though got things sorted out. Now it doesn't boot no matter what processes I repeat to try setting things up. It seems the CMOS/RTC battery may be involved too. When the system 1st booted, I got that boot prompt about RTC and going into settings that happens after you've disconnected and reconnected the RTC battery. But then I went back to boot the system again, and I got the same RTC prompt. The system booted fine again though after going into settings, saving them and exiting. But when I shut things down, I lifted the keyboard and found I had forgotten to connect the battery somewhere along the way. Oh! I disconnected it last night thinking I'd let as much time pass as possible to clear BIOS/CMOS settings. (I wonder if that points to something significant.) So I went ahead and reconnected it thinking my boot problems were behind me, and that uninstalling and reinstalling EZ-Drive fixed the problem. But then the system failed to boot again. I went back and uninstalled EZ-Drive, put the HDD back in the Libby, and nothing. I pulled the RTC battery plug, let it sit, and tried booting, and nothing. Tried serveral more combinations of everything I've described, but I'm back to where it won't boot no matter what I do. Bad connection? Software/hardware conflict between the Libretto CMOS/BIOS and EZ-Drive? Something with the RTC battery in the mix? The battery can't be low or dying can it? It worked fine for the past week with the 100 MB installed. So I've tossed this message back to the "RE: [LIB] Dead L110" thread, and am back to square one. Matt ----------------------------------------------- >From Dick: So, it was the hard drive. Glad to hear it was finally fixed. Dick -----Original Message----- From: Matt Hanson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] Dead L110 AAaaaaaacccckkkkkk.... It >IS< a bios problem... but it's >EZ-Drive/Bios< come back to haunt me! Seems I can't read files properly without it... and now it wants to act up and keep my system from booting when it feels like it. I remembered that I would have this problem when I 1st installed this 110 MB. I'd do something with the HDD in the Libretto, put the drive in the desktop to tweak something, put it back in the Libretto, and it seemed dead. To get things set up so that I can read files properly, I had to install EZ-Drive (we never found a way around my file error problems). But then if I wanted to partition safely, I'd remove EZ-Drive, and do partitioning in the desktop that fully supports Int13 extensions. I'd then put the HDD back in the Libretto, and it wouldn't boot. So at that point I'd put it back in the desktop and install EZ-Drive from there, and then it'd boot fine in the Libby. So I just put the HDD in the desktop, removed EZ-Drive, put it back in the Libretto, and it booted! Got me.... I need some sunshine.... Matt ... at least the 110 is back in commission. Anyone using EZ-Drive on >8GB HDDs with similar, unsolved booting problems may want to try this themselves. --- Matt Hanson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 14:09:08 -0800 (PST) > From: Matt Hanson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: RE: [LIB] Dead L110 > > AAaaaaaacccckkkkkk.... > > It >IS< a bios problem... but it's >EZ-Drive/Bios< come back to haunt me! > > Seems I can't read files properly without it... and now it wants to act > up > and keep my system from booting when it feels like it. > > I remembered that I would have this problem when I 1st installed this 110 > MB. I'd do something with the HDD in the Libretto, put the drive in the > desktop to tweak something, put it back in the Libretto, and it seemed > dead. To get things set up so that I can read files properly, I had to > install EZ-Drive (we never found a way around my file error problems). > But > then if I wanted to partition safely, I'd remove EZ-Drive, and do > partitioning in the desktop that fully supports Int13 extensions. I'd > then > put the HDD back in the Libretto, and it wouldn't boot. So at that point > I'd put it back in the desktop and install EZ-Drive from there, and then > it'd boot fine in the Libby. > > So I just put the HDD in the desktop, removed EZ-Drive, put it back in > the > Libretto, and it booted! > > Got me.... I need some sunshine.... > > Matt > > ... at least the 110 is back in commission. > > Anyone using EZ-Drive on >8GB HDDs with similar, unsolved booting > problems > may want to try this themselves. > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
