Posts by myattus

Solution: After spending the better part of two weeks, I have found a solution that does not require the installation of a new Motherboard. Though, to fix the Fasttrak Controller / No Bios problem correctly and legitimately a new...

I have a fix in the works and in a few days I'll know if it's successful. I'll post it here so no-one has to go through this nightmare again. JessieJames58 - first off, what you did to Sandra Bullock sucks, secondly - thanks for the...

I received the Teac floppy drive the other day and it did not fix my problem. I have exhausted every option other than trying a freshly reformatted HDD - the one Im trying to get it to see is the HDD from my other working laptop which...

I dont know anyone that has one of the 3 drives that work. I found a ton of Teac floppy drives on Ebay for about $20 shipped. I think I may also need a new HDD as the one I'm using is from another XP laptop....perhaps not being formated...

thanks for all your input qhn. I tried slipstreaming the drivers in but it didnt work. I think I need a usb floppy drive to fix this - or chuck it out a window...

I found this website that has a recovery iso for my laptop here: http://www.user-guides.co.uk/cddownl...re-116390.html Does anyone know anything about them? What are the odds that this is what I need to fix it? Thanks again.

Thanks for the link, I appreciate your help. I installed both the 1.00.06 and when that didnt work - the 1.00.07 bios'. I switched HDDs, tried 2 HDDs, various jumper settings, usb boots, cd boots, fedora & xp boots, I've tried...

Hello everyone, First off let me say, what a great forum this is. There are lots of users willing to help out and that's a far cry from the other forums I visited where the most prevalent advice is to "get a new laptop". I...