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Subject: Re: Vivante XL won't boot

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James Loken

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Date Posted: 06:38:24 09/07/00 Thu
In reply to: Kay Casavant 's message, "Vivante XL won't boot" on 10:19:26 08/22/00 Tue

Dear Kay,

> I have a Vivante XL (LS120, DVD/CDROM, 128mbRam) which
> is suddenly not booting up (says there is a floppy
> drive error and to insert boot disk). After inserting
> both my own boot disk and one which I made from a
> utility which creates a win98 boot disk, still I get
> this message.
>
> Does anyone know if this is one of the symptoms of a
> dead CMOS battery? (my clock was losing time for a
> while prior to this). After reading all the recent
> emails on the CMOS battery problems, maybe its just
> the power of suggestion which is leading me to this
> conclusion. I looked inside the RAM access panel to
> see if the battery was easily accessible, and alas I
> don't see anything there which looks like a battery
> (to me). I did look at the Transmonde Self-Support
> site on the CMOS topic, and while the information
> there is very helpful (keep up the good work) I'm not
> at all comfortable to get involved in a project
> involving complete dissassembly ( and soldering
> -yikes!). So before I take the thing apart, and most
> likely, destroy it, I thought I would see if anyone
> can confirm that this sounds like bad CMOS or perhaps
> some other problem.
>
> Has anyone ever taken one of these laptops to a Radio
> Shack or some such place for service? Will they even
> look at them? I would feel more comfortable paying
> someone who knows their way around the inside of a
> laptop, even if they don't know Transmonde.
>
> It may be time for me to go to Best Buy for a brand
> name.... I am no electrical engineer.
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
> Kay Casavant

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Re: Vivante XL won't boot	James Loken	06:43:43 09/07/00 Thu