Text 58853, 75 rader
Skriven 2009-12-11 14:56:28 av Russell Tiedt (5:7105/1)
  Kommentar till text 58835 av Jean Parrot (1:123/789.0)
Ärende: Toshiba Sattelite l40-170
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Hello Jean.

10 Dec 09 15:36, you wrote to me:


 JP>         Was it a HD PW ?

No idea what password, I suspect it was the system (?) password, tho it could 
very well have also been a HDD password, as the BIOS has provision for one ...

 RT>> Then I found out it has a "funny" sata controler ... , but then
 RT>> the damage was done ... (WINXP)

 JP>         Nothing funny about using SATA, Russ. It was all transparent
 JP> to me here on my Toshiba, I did once redo the OS. If you had spoken
 JP> louder before, I could have copied the DVDs to you.

Well a standard WINXP does not have drivers for it, so HDD is not seen ... , 
the Kid does not have a USB Floppy drive for it, nor does he remember having 
gotten restore CD's from his Uncle when he bought the laptop. :-(

Well, he now has a WINXP version that installs to his laptop, but I am sure 
that in a few months he will be back, needing help again, only this time, he 
will do it all himself, while I watch and instruct ... , thems the rules here 
... , otherwise they never learn anything themselves ... <BG>

 RT>> ZAR 520.00 and 3 days later, I got it back, used nLite to install
 RT>> the sata drivers to a WINXP install disk - re-installed WINXP,
 RT>> and the kid is happy .

 JP>         This is a main point. Good on you. Why did you have to use
 JP> nLite? Seems to me that it is not required, the XP CD is bootable and
 JP> so are the Restore CDs ( DVDs ). I never had to resort to that
 JP> boogie-man PFM !

WINXP is bootable, but does not have the required sata drivers for the laptop. 
As above, when the Kid bought the Laptop from his Uncle, he did not get 
restore cd's/DVD's ...

Neither the Kid nor myself have a USB floppydrive which could be used to 
remedy this situation. WINXP SP2 does not support loading required drivers 
from USB memory sticks :-((.

On an Acer box that does not support WINXP, (VISTA only) I was able to use a 
floppy to add the drivers at install time ... , no floppy so another solution 
was required ...

So only way to get around the problem was to use nLite to add the drivers to a 
WINXP install disk, and make a "new" ISO image, write to CD and install from 
that ...

It is school holidays, and the Kid keeps himself off the street and out off 
BAD company when no one is home, by playing on the laptop ...

As my Step-Son and Son are both LAN network gamers, I get a lot of visits ... 
, especially during school holidays ...

"Hello Uncle"

"Uncle. I need drivers for my '........' device"

or,

"Uncle the LAN competion begins in 2 hours ... and my computer is not working 
like it should .... please help ...."

And so it goes ... <sigh>

Not that I mind that much, except when I have something else that needs to be 
done like in "RIGHT NOW".

Russell

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