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Subject: Re: Couple of questions

Author:
Larry Latson

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Date Posted: 11:10:09 05/11/00 Thu
In reply to: Justin Ward Freeman 's message, "Couple of questions" on 07:09:24 05/11/00 Thu

> Ok... recently, my Vivante SE has been hanging on boot
> up, just past the Maestro sound card init. It also
> gets into Win 98 and just hangs with the
> arrow/hourglass with a black screen occasionally. I
> am sure I don't want to know, but is my hard drive
> failing?

hmm... that's tough to tell. usually when hard drives
actually fail, they do so quite dramatically, but are
pretty reliable up till then. at least that's my
experience.

my only thought would be to reinstall the OS (if it's
not too much trouble). driver problems can cause
strange problems sometimes.

>Just this morning I came in after leaving it
> on all night (not in suspend mode) and I could not
> wake the hard drive at all. This is happening more
> and more frequently.
>
> Also, anyone have any recommendations for where to go
> for upgrades for our babies? I still have my
> wonderful extended warranty... and I snagged some
> stuff from the "liquidation sale" a while ago, but now
> I am wondering about processors and hard drive
> (potentially).
>

transmonde was pretty smart and used a lot of "industry
standard" parts. any 2.5" less than 12.5mm will fit in
the drive bay, and you can buy pretty cheap ones now from
any online hardware store (CDW, egghead, etc.). also the
memory is standard SO-DIMMs (SO stands for 'short order'
i think), and this can also be found almost anywhere.

personally i would be most interested in a CPU upgrade,
but there is no way in heck i'm going to send my laptop
off to ASE for who knows how long. other posts on this
site have said that they've found people with the CPU's
but either they are rediculously overpriced or they
won't sell them alone.

> And thanks for keeping this site and forum alive and
> well. I don't know what I would do without it...

i agree! we need to stick together...

LL

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Subject	Author	Date
Thanks (nm) (NT)	Justin	11:54:57 05/11/00 Thu