Help to restore 2 old laptops so the kids can use them!
Posted: Tue Nov 23, 2010 1:02 am
Thank you in advance for your assistance. Excuse me for lack of detail and knowledge, I will try and give as much information as possible. Actually, I've decided to attempt to repair 1 laptop at a time - I'll start a separate thread once I've (fingers crossed) got the first one working!
Laptop 1. I believe is running Windows 2000, but I added some DJ software (Final Scratch) that runs on Linux, drive partitioned and laptop worked fine for a couple of years on both OS's. I do not have the original boot disks or the Final Scratch disk. A couple of years ago (for some unknown reason - though drunken stupidity comes to mind) I decided to rename one of the drives (partitions) and it's never booted up since!
I get the manufacturers 'splash' screen and can get into the BIOS on F2. When loading from CD-ROM with UBCD on CD-R, burnt at the minimum speed that Activ@ allowed, I get.
GRUB Loading stage 1.5.
GRUB loading, please wait...
Error 15
When booting from the HDD I get:
Intel UNDI, PXE-2.0 (build 082)
Copyright (C) 1997,1998,1999 Intel corporation
VIA PCI 10/100Mb Fast Ethernet Adapter v1.19 (2001/11/16)
PXE-E61: Media test failure, check cable
PXE-MOF: Exiting Intel PXE ROM.
GRUB Loading stage 1.5.
GRUB loading, please wait...
Error 15
No button pressing on the keyboard allows me to enter anything - so I switch off! i was hoping that when I booted from UBCD something would happen!
Thanks again for your help!
Laptop 1. I believe is running Windows 2000, but I added some DJ software (Final Scratch) that runs on Linux, drive partitioned and laptop worked fine for a couple of years on both OS's. I do not have the original boot disks or the Final Scratch disk. A couple of years ago (for some unknown reason - though drunken stupidity comes to mind) I decided to rename one of the drives (partitions) and it's never booted up since!
I get the manufacturers 'splash' screen and can get into the BIOS on F2. When loading from CD-ROM with UBCD on CD-R, burnt at the minimum speed that Activ@ allowed, I get.
GRUB Loading stage 1.5.
GRUB loading, please wait...
Error 15
When booting from the HDD I get:
Intel UNDI, PXE-2.0 (build 082)
Copyright (C) 1997,1998,1999 Intel corporation
VIA PCI 10/100Mb Fast Ethernet Adapter v1.19 (2001/11/16)
PXE-E61: Media test failure, check cable
PXE-MOF: Exiting Intel PXE ROM.
GRUB Loading stage 1.5.
GRUB loading, please wait...
Error 15
No button pressing on the keyboard allows me to enter anything - so I switch off! i was hoping that when I booted from UBCD something would happen!
Thanks again for your help!