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From: Jerry Peters on 26 Apr 2010 17:36
Meat Plow <mhywatt(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 25 Apr 2010 14:57:49 -0500, Jeffrey D Angus
> <jangus(a)suddenlink.net>wrote:
>
>>Meat Plow wrote:
>>> On Sun, 25 Apr 2010 04:42:58 -0400, Jamie
>>> <jamie_ka1lpa_not_valid_after_ka1lpa_(a)charter.net>wrote:
>>>
>>>> some Laptops have a partition on the HD that has special set up
>>>> software at boot time to configure the proprietary onboard chips..
>>>> This also could be an issue..
>>>
>>> What laptop(s) would have this feature?
>>
>>Compaq, they were nortorious for having a special partition they would
>>fail to boot if they didn't find.
>
> I've never owned a Compaq laptop but working in the industry when
> Compaq was the workstation of choice I would have thought I'd read
> about it somewhere. This must have been really proprietary as I've
> never heard of a chipset needing to load code from a fixed drive
> during boot. Can you give me an example of a model number and year
> and what operating system? Not that I don't believe you I'm just a bit
> taken back that onboard chips could be so proprietary that they
> couldn't be produced with their own non-volitile embedded instruction
> sets.
>
IIRC IBM did something similiar with certain PS/2 models which loaded
the ABIOS (advanced BIOS) from disk.

Jerry
From: Mike De Petris on 27 Apr 2010 01:31
On Apr 26, 11:24 pm, "William Sommerwerck"
<grizzledgee...(a)comcast.net> wrote:
> fluorescent, please.

:)
From: Mike De Petris on 8 May 2010 05:57
On Apr 24, 9:48 pm, Mike De Petris <mikedepet...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> On Apr 24, 8:30 pm, Meat Plow <mhyw...(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > On Fri, 23 Apr 2010 13:00:57 -0700 (PDT), Mike De Petris
> > <mikedepet...(a)gmail.com>wrote:
>
> > >I have a Toshiba Satellite A205 - S4777 that works perfect while on
> > >battery, but the instance i plug the charger in, it freezes. First i
> > >thought it was a Vista-Toshiba issue but only to discover that even in
> > >BIOS it freezes instantly when the charger is plugged in. When the
> > >laptop is off, any attempt to power it on while the charger is plugged
> > >in, results only in a flicker of the power led.
> > >I tried different chargers, ANY possible power options combinations in
> > >Vista and Win7.
>
> > >If I boot from battery and enter Windows Safe Mode, or Hiren's boot
> > >CD, or WinXP mini all works fine even if I connect the power cord,
> > >where normal Windows and BIOS freeze istantly.
>
> > >I'm even thing of giving current directly by the battery contacts...
> > >may this be possible?
>
> > >Any help or advice on possible causes or solution to this issue would
> > >be grateful. Thank you :)
>
> > Uninstall the Toshiba Power Managemnt utility if you have it
> > installed. If that fixes it try reinstalling it. If you don't have the
> > utility installed go to Toshiba and see if it is available for your
> > 205 and the Vista platform.
>
> I have plain Windows 7 installed at the moment, no Toshiba nor other
> utilities, even never connected to the network.
>
> Anyway it freezes even in the BIOS when connecting power.

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