~Toughbooktalk~

Never mind people...
As it would have survived being hit with a hammer, I gave up and sold it.

Thank you all for your input.

It looks like a bad screen... Hmmm.... odd! Hi Rob, Just so you know... yeah, the screen sure looks stuffed but I have been running various Boot CD's all day toady without recurrence so it leads me to think that during the installs of 8.04 and Boot-repair, some graphics driver or process was 'stopp...

Shawn wrote:If you boot a windows xp install cd, it will find the folder and ask if you want to repair that installation.

Yeah it does that, but I have next to no idea of which command to give. .. Fixmbr? Fixboot?

Does anyone know if it is possible to copy and paste the old original XP install? Yesterday I found a folder in a back up drive which I had forgotten existed. I now remember that when I formatted the HD, I saved all the Windows XP files and folders. These will have all the correct CF28 hardware driv...

Here's an update... was trying to load Ubuntu 8.04 this afternoon and this happened to the screen... (see attachments) Could this be the culprit to the OS failure? What might cause this? Video card? Anyone seen this before? I did have the Laptop disassembled last week in the search for the root prob...

After months of searching, no-one seems to know what the problem is, so am gonna sell the CF28 as is!

Thanks for all your help.

ADOR wrote:Is the jumpers on the hard drive correct?

Hard Drive without Jumpers as this normally sets to Master.

Have you tried the original 30gb drive? What is the bios boot order? What are you formatting the drives as fat 16, fat 32. just throwing ideas....Photos of the hdd caddy and cable...maybe defective or cheap Chinese knockoff??? Wrong size caddy? I dunno much about that other than I read cf28's use d...

If its a 160gb Samsung its simply not compatible! Try a different drive and post your results! I had this problem with cf-29's myself and I NEVER found a solution other than to use a western digital drive! It currently has a 40Gb Hitachi installed with Ubuntu 9.10, and it still stalls on Boot. I mu...

Did you check to see if that DVD drive was set to master as Springfield asked earlier? Just trying to narrow it down. Didn't check that, but did try booting with the DVD Rom removed, with no joy. Will try again now though, as I have a different OS installed. Is the 'Master select' when you solder a...