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"rllthomas" <If
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your bios can't be entered then your problem is at the hardware level. No
messing around with disks will help because your computer is having problems
before it ever even tries to read the contents of any disk, floppy or
otherwise. About the only thing I can suggest trying is 1) Seeing if you have
a motherboard jumper or something that sets the bios back to factory defaults.
Many desktops have this. 2) Flashing your bios.
Rich Thomas
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"Sean Dotson" <sean at sdotson dot com> wrote in message
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It's a laptop (and it's under warranty) so
no jumpers to easily access and I'm not gonna crack that sucker open.
I'm very comfortable with desktops but these laptops are so tiny now days I'm
not touching it.
I'm not convinced it's the BIOS as it attempts to
boot (get to the splash screen and even sometimes the command prompt) but it's
odd that it ignore the DEL key to enter the BIOS setup.
Anyway as I said. It's Toshiba's problem
now...
Thanks...
--
Sean Dotson, PE
href="http://www.sdotson.com">http://www.sdotson.com
...sleep is for
the weak..
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"rllthomas" <If
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your bios can't be entered then your problem is at the hardware level. No
messing around with disks will help because your computer is having problems
before it ever even tries to read the contents of any disk, floppy or
otherwise. About the only thing I can suggest trying is 1) Seeing if you
have a motherboard jumper or something that sets the bios back to factory
defaults. Many desktops have this. 2) Flashing your bios.
Rich Thomas
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"Russ Walker" <
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FWIW, I ran into a similar problem with my
Gateway laptop. I really thought it was toast. After booting to a
command "console" there were two utilities to run. One to restore the
Master Boot Record and the other to rebuild the windows boot loader.
Amazingly I lost no files during the ordeal.
-Russ
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"Sean Dotson" <sean at sdotson dot com> wrote in message
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It's a laptop (and it's under warranty)
so no jumpers to easily access and I'm not gonna crack that sucker
open. I'm very comfortable with desktops but these laptops are so tiny
now days I'm not touching it.
I'm not convinced it's the BIOS as it attempts
to boot (get to the splash screen and even sometimes the command prompt) but
it's odd that it ignore the DEL key to enter the BIOS setup.
Anyway as I said. It's Toshiba's problem
now...
Thanks...
--
Sean Dotson, PE
href="http://www.sdotson.com">http://www.sdotson.com
...sleep is for
the weak..
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"rllthomas" <If
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your bios can't be entered then your problem is at the hardware level. No
messing around with disks will help because your computer is having
problems before it ever even tries to read the contents of any disk,
floppy or otherwise. About the only thing I can suggest trying is 1)
Seeing if you have a motherboard jumper or something that sets the bios
back to factory defaults. Many desktops have this. 2) Flashing your bios.
Rich Thomas
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"Sean Dotson" <
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If anyone was interested my laptop had a bad boot sector on
the HD. A physical scratch where the head hit the disk. They said
they hadn't seen this in years.
1.5 days turnaround to ship to TN and get it back. Not
too shabby...
Now I just need to load up everything again 😞
-Sean
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"Russ Walker" <
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FWIW, I ran into a similar problem with my
Gateway laptop. I really thought it was toast. After booting to
a command "console" there were two utilities to run. One to restore
the Master Boot Record and the other to rebuild the windows boot
loader. Amazingly I lost no files during the ordeal.
-Russ
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"Sean Dotson" <sean at sdotson dot com> wrote in message
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It's a laptop (and it's under warranty)
so no jumpers to easily access and I'm not gonna crack that sucker
open. I'm very comfortable with desktops but these laptops are so
tiny now days I'm not touching it.
I'm not convinced it's the BIOS as it
attempts to boot (get to the splash screen and even sometimes the command
prompt) but it's odd that it ignore the DEL key to enter the BIOS
setup.
Anyway as I said. It's Toshiba's
problem now...
Thanks...
--
Sean Dotson, PE
href="http://www.sdotson.com">http://www.sdotson.com
...sleep is
for the weak..
-----------------------------------------
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"rllthomas" <If
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your bios can't be entered then your problem is at the hardware level.
No messing around with disks will help because your computer is having
problems before it ever even tries to read the contents of any disk,
floppy or otherwise. About the only thing I can suggest trying is 1)
Seeing if you have a motherboard jumper or something that sets the bios
back to factory defaults. Many desktops have this. 2) Flashing your
bios.
Rich
Thomas
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"Ron Crain" <
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I just read a message from my Dell notebook
mailing list where one guy had his laptop with him camping and some wild
animal tossed his notebook into the bushes and it stopped working. He
called Tech support and they sent a service technician to him - it wasn't 24hr
service like was promised but it was 48 hours and he wasn't complaining since
they actually came right to his campsite and fixed the machine on the picnic
table. He said his buddies were more impressed than the Fed Ex delivery
the day before <g>.
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"Sean Dotson" <
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If anyone was interested my laptop had a bad boot sector
on the HD. A physical scratch where the head hit the disk. They
said they hadn't seen this in years.
1.5 days turnaround to ship to TN and get it back.
Not too shabby...
Now I just need to load up everything again
:(
-Sean
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"Russ Walker" <
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FWIW, I ran into a similar problem with my
Gateway laptop. I really thought it was toast. After booting
to a command "console" there were two utilities to run. One to
restore the Master Boot Record and the other to rebuild the windows boot
loader. Amazingly I lost no files during the ordeal.
-Russ
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"Sean Dotson" <sean at sdotson dot com> wrote in message
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It's a laptop (and it's under
warranty) so no jumpers to easily access and I'm not gonna crack
that sucker open. I'm very comfortable with desktops but these
laptops are so tiny now days I'm not touching it.
I'm not convinced it's the BIOS as it
attempts to boot (get to the splash screen and even sometimes the
command prompt) but it's odd that it ignore the DEL key to enter the
BIOS setup.
Anyway as I said. It's Toshiba's
problem now...
Thanks...
--
Sean Dotson, PE
href="http://www.sdotson.com">http://www.sdotson.com
...sleep is
for the weak..
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"rllthomas" <If
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your bios can't be entered then your problem is at the hardware level.
No messing around with disks will help because your computer is having
problems before it ever even tries to read the contents of any disk,
floppy or otherwise. About the only thing I can suggest trying is 1)
Seeing if you have a motherboard jumper or something that sets the
bios back to factory defaults. Many desktops have this. 2) Flashing
your bios.
Rich
Thomas
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"Ron Crain" <
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I just read a message from my Dell notebook
mailing list where one guy had his laptop with him camping and some wild
animal tossed his notebook into the bushes and it stopped working. He
called Tech support and they sent a service technician to him - it wasn't 24hr
service like was promised but it was 48 hours and he wasn't complaining since
they actually came right to his campsite and fixed the machine on the picnic
table. He said his buddies were more impressed than the Fed Ex delivery
the day before <g>.
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"Sean Dotson" <
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href="news:2FFB2684F60EF9FE438C0A96297AD0BF@in.WebX.maYIadrTaRb">news:2FFB2684F60EF9FE438C0A962......
If anyone was interested my laptop had a bad boot sector
on the HD. A physical scratch where the head hit the disk. They
said they hadn't seen this in years.
1.5 days turnaround to ship to TN and get it back.
Not too shabby...
Now I just need to load up everything again
:(
-Sean
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"Russ Walker" <
href="mailto:peterson7@toast7.net">peterson7@toast7.net> wrote in
message
href="news:F73450BA68D91166832C8AF5BC7DCBA9@in.WebX.maYIadrTaRb">news:F73450BA68D91166832C8AF......
FWIW, I ran into a similar problem with my
Gateway laptop. I really thought it was toast. After booting
to a command "console" there were two utilities to run. One to
restore the Master Boot Record and the other to rebuild the windows boot
loader. Amazingly I lost no files during the ordeal.
-Russ
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"Sean Dotson" <sean at sdotson dot com> wrote in message
href="news:8E55918F47D86A6A8EB5567CB506C8B9@in.WebX.maYIadrTaRb">news:8E55918F47D86A6A8EB55......
It's a laptop (and it's under
warranty) so no jumpers to easily access and I'm not gonna crack
that sucker open. I'm very comfortable with desktops but these
laptops are so tiny now days I'm not touching it.
I'm not convinced it's the BIOS as it
attempts to boot (get to the splash screen and even sometimes the
command prompt) but it's odd that it ignore the DEL key to enter the
BIOS setup.
Anyway as I said. It's Toshiba's
problem now...
Thanks...
--
Sean Dotson, PE
href="http://www.sdotson.com">http://www.sdotson.com
...sleep is
for the weak..
-----------------------------------------
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"rllthomas" <If
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your bios can't be entered then your problem is at the hardware level.
No messing around with disks will help because your computer is having
problems before it ever even tries to read the contents of any disk,
floppy or otherwise. About the only thing I can suggest trying is 1)
Seeing if you have a motherboard jumper or something that sets the
bios back to factory defaults. Many desktops have this. 2) Flashing
your bios.
Rich
Thomas