Waterns
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Posted: Mar. 31 2005,15:39 |
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Compaq Armada 1571DM
CD-ROM and Floppy Drive
32 Megs RAM
3.0 gb harddrive (2gb for windows 98se and 1 for DSL)
PCMCIA ports/USB ports/and general other ports
This is driving me crazy. So here is what is going on:
1. Spend like 4 hours using a bad write and thinking its the ram all along. It was the CD.
2. Write Image to CD-RW to only realize that the laptop has major trouble with RWs.
3. Finally write image to a standard CD at 12x. YES! It boots and all is well (resolution needs to be changed to 800x600 but otherwise its fine).
4. So now I go to do a hdd install to a second partition that is about 1000 megs. Everything "installs" and then it asks to reboot.
5. Reboot and it loads to the part of where it mounts the drives and boom it stops. I reboot and...
6. It goes to the same part apparently fixes it and then I reboot again because its says "*Reboot Linux*".
7. Now it loads to the part of where the passwords need to be added. I do that (some trouble since my laptop cuts of like the last couple of lines) and it boots.
8. It works and naturally the first thing I go to do is change the resolution to 800x600. Reboots and.
9. Repeat steps 5 through 7 minus the password change (its the user login command now).
Is it perhaps it is a cluster of bad sectors? I dont know if DSL automatticlly marks bad sectors (Windows does) and doesnt use them anymore.
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