So my trusty CL56 that I have used nearly everyday since I bought it in June of 2004 has conked out. A friend asked me to play DJ at her wedding so I put all of my music on my laptop and made playlists in winamp so it would be fairly automated. Got to the wedding and went to boot up... nothing. I get some error where it says the kernel cannot be found or somesuch. I safebooted with logging and at least some files are being loaded but it keeps hanging on certain ones. I tried shorting the jumper to reset the bios as that had worked before when I ran into problems, but this time it didn't change anything. So I figured the HD had crashed, pulled it out and put it in an external enclosure and plugged it into a friend's laptop. Everything is accessible but the directory names don't show up in the folders pane of explorer. Chkdsk finds tons of errors. I managed to save the music, but the playlists were gone. I had to DJ in realtime which sucked. Anyway. I got a new HD and tried to install windows XP Pro. Everything seemed to be going smoothly until about 4/5th of the way through the install process it runs into an error. I don't remember what it was. I swapped the memory, same error. So my question is: Is this thing dead, or what? Mainboard fried? Anyone run into a similar problem? Does anyone want to buy a semi-functioning CL56, cheap?
Thanks for the help, guys..
Thanks for the help, guys..
