Date: Wed, 3 May 2006 02:20:36 +0100
From: "Pete Phillipps" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RE: [LIB] Broken L110 For Sale
Hi Everyone,
David Chien wrote:
<< I have a Libretto 110 which does not want to boot for sale.
6GB hard
> drive, 64MB RAM, floppy disc drive, enhanced port replicator. Looking
> for �125, will consider offers though. Not sure what the problem is,
> sometimes it boots into Windows then freezes and won't re-boot,
> othertimes it gets as far as the Toshiba opening screen then won't go any
further.
One likely possibility that resembles what you describe is a failing hard
drive. Old hard drives will fail over time, and the easiest 'fix' is to
drop in a new 9.5mm 2.5" HD. If you have one as a spare, you can easily
swap the hard drives and see if it'll boot correctly.>>
That was my first concern, although I'd only upgraded the machine
with an 80GB hard drive some time last year. But the problem persisted when
I tried it with the original hard drive. I picked up a working replacement
Libretto 110 on Ebay in January and both drives work fine in that one (and
its drive doesn't work in the old Libretto either). Even stuck a fresh
install of Windows 98 on the original drive to see if that might fix things.
<<Another way to see if it's the rest of the laptop or the HD is to
boot from a floppy disk and see if the machine consistantly boots from the
floppy disk.>>
More often than not it won't even boot from a floppy.
Pete
"Many [wargame] battles have been fought and won by soldiers nourished on
beer" - Frederick the Great, 1777
