DVD drivers are supplied by Windows so any DVD drive should work. CMOS shouldn't die. Try a new battery or at least momentarily short the CMOS you have to reset it to default and see if it boots.
> > I declined the extended warranty on my Toshiba. A month or so after the > warranty expired the thing started to bomb. One system after another > failed. > The network connector first, so I used a pcmcia work-around. The > proprietary > Windows XP OS was from hell as well but I used Linux. > > Then the DVD drive failed. There is a generic DVD drive that will fit, but > it > won't work. Toshiba uses firmware on the DVD drive that is proprietary - > gotcha! Of course the real part is several hundred $. > > Now the pile of junk won't even boot - cmos is dead. Of course, I went > broke > before I paid for it all so there is a little guerrilla justice in that, > but > any money at all is too much if it is just crap, and it is. > > It almost seems as though they had hard-coded failure dates into their > firmware. Could they have done that? > -- > Regards, > > Pete _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
