Help. Computer crash

[SpinnerBait_Nut]

Yea it's me and don't you all laugh.<br />My desktop crashed this morning so I am on my laptop.<br />What I need help in is setting up the laptop to work on my cable.<br />I have the ethernet disk from the cable company and a erthenet card in my laptop so what do I need to do, just hook it up to my laptop's card or what?<br />Thanks guys and maybe after you get up off the floor from laughing so hard one of you can answer me.<br />BTW, email me at grizzlybear310@peoplepc.com

 

[mellowyellow]

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what did you do???? <br />assuming the laptop already recognizes the ethernet<br />card, just plug it in and install the cable software <br />from the CD. get tech. support from local<br />cable co. on the phone while yur installing for<br />extra help. also a good idea to turn off the<br />cable modem and then turn back on, this will give<br />you a clean IP address.<br />ps. reason for cable co. tech is yur gonna need<br />some acct. info and most folks don't have it<br />written down. installation CD will require this info.<br />good luck, actually easy if you have the info.<br />required.

 

[SpinnerBait_Nut]

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Originally posted by mellowyellow:<br />what did you do???? <br />assuming the laptop already recognises the ethernet<br />card, just plug it in and install the cable software <br />from the CD. get tech. support from local<br />cable co. on the phone while yur installing for<br />extra help. also a good idea to turn off the<br />cable modem and then turn back on, this will give<br />you a clean IP address.<br />ps. reason for cable co. tech is yur gonna need<br />some acct. info and most folks don't have it<br />written down. installation CD will require this info.<br />good luck, actually easy if you have the info.<br />required.

Don't know what happened.<br />It just crashed.<br />No hard drive regonised.<br />IBM said crashed.<br />Which card?<br />The one for the desk top or the one that is in the laptop now?<br />I have a floppy from them and my account number if that will help any.<br />Thanks MY.

 

[mellowyellow]

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power down laptop, plug in ethernet connection,<br />disconnect modem, fire her up. will need to change<br />connection from dial up to ethernet in control<br />panel.<br />1 step at time. first gotta get laptop to use<br />ethernet card instead of modem.

 

[SpinnerBait_Nut]

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Do I need to shut down the cable modem and then hook it up to the laptop and turn the modem back on and then the laptop?

 

[mellowyellow]

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IM me buddy

 

[eurolarva]

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On your desk top did you try startup with the start up disks. If you dont have them sometimes you can start up using the original installation discs that came with the computer. When doing this disconnect the cable modem prior to start up. If it starts you up you will be in safe mode then you can use a system restore point to hopefully get you computer up and running

 

[SpinnerBait_Nut]

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Originally posted by eurolarva:<br />On your desk top did you try startup with the start up disks. If you dont have them sometimes you can start up using the original installation discs that came with the computer. When doing this disconnect the cable modem prior to start up. If it starts you up you will be in safe mode then you can use a system restore point to hopefully get you computer up and running

Thanks euro.<br />It says hard drive not found.

 

[Ralph 123]

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SBN - do you need my 2 cents?

 

[SpinnerBait_Nut]

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Originally posted by Ralph:<br />SBN - do you need my 2 cents?

if you want to throw them out there.<br />I will contact IBM on Monday for I still have some warranty left on the ol girl.<br />Looking at buying a new one and get a router and hook them both up.<br />Then just use the old one for my website stuff.

 

[Ralph 123]

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Jump over to the Yahoo iBoat chat area - I'll wait for you there.

 

[rickdb1boat]

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Very simple if you have an ethernet card in the laptop. With your dial-up connection, download the "Sygate" program. Good for free for 30 days and does all the configuring for you. Try it, it works..<br /><br /> web page

 

[SpinnerBait_Nut]

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Originally posted by RB:<br />Very simple if you have an ethernet card in the laptop. With your dial-up connection, download the "Sygate" program. Good for free for 30 days and does all the configuring for you. Try it, it works..<br /><br /> web page

Got it going.<br />Just plugged the cable in to the laptop and it took off.

 

[bubbakat]

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Well just as I quit laughing you already had it going <br /> I feel for you with a major crash been there and done that

 

[SpinnerBait_Nut]

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Originally posted by bubbakat:<br />Well just as I quit laughing you already had it going <br /> I feel for you with a major crash been there and done that

Yea Bubba, I knew you would be tickled. <br />That's ok, I got my laptop so they can't get rid of me yet.

 

[TPD211]

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SBN,<br />concerning the desktop PC, when it goes to boot up, press whatever key it says to enter the bios, usually esc. but it may also be f1 or f2.<br />Navigate to the primary master hardrive until its highlighted. Press enter so the bios attempts to locate the harddrive. If it locates it, exit out of the bios saving your changes. <br />The PC should boot up then, recognizing the harddrive.<br />

 

[SpinnerBait_Nut]

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That's just it, it don't even try to boot.<br />The IBM sign comes on and when I hit Esc twice, it comes up and says, "Boot failure, insert boot disk in drive A"<br />So I do that and it goes through it's stuff and tells me, "This will try to fix problem, machine will reboot in 5 seconds"<br />Then says "no parameters found or something like that, no drive detected".

 

[WoodRust]

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SBN ...My humble suggestions<br /><br />1) Disconnect all external devices from your computer except the monitor, keyboard & mouse. Especially printers. (Do this with everything 'powered down'.<br /><br />Why? Static. H.P. printers, especially parallel port versions are notorious for this. I have seen countless hard disk failure bios reports saying 'no drive' because of this. No idea why. Cable?<br /><br />2) Power up the computer with only the above 3 devices attached. If it still reports no hard disk, go into the Bios setup and restore the 'factory defaults', save & exit, reboot re-enter the BIOs setup and use the 'auto detect hard drive feature if it fails to find the hard drive.

 

[SpinnerBait_Nut]

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Thanks WoodRust.<br />Just came back from the "doctor" and he said the hard drive was in fact bad.<br />He had it hooked up with just keyboard and monitor.<br />Used and emergency disk to get it to power up and it did not see any hard drive.<br />He hooked another hard drive up to it and the windows loaded up, so I will talk to IBM tomorrow since it still is under warranty and see about them getting me another hard drive.

 

[jee70611]

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SBN, <br /><br />Do you have any important info on that drive that you need to keep? If so, you can try a method that may sound crazy. It just may work. Take the actual hard drive itself, not the whole pc just the hard drive, and put it in your freezer overnight. Don't laugh this really works sometimes. In essence, the cold causes the parts to contract and recontact each other for a short while. Then the next day, take it out and put it in another pc as the slave drive and copy your files over if it can be detected. Be quick though, you don't want it to warm up and quit on you. I've also had harddrives not be detected by the bios if they were the only drive hooked to their IDE cable. Seems strange, but if you put a slave(another hard drive or a cd-rom) on the same cable as the harddrive, it may detect it then. Just make sure that the added device is set to slave and the hard drive is set to master. Anyways, good luck and keep us posted. <br /><br />James<br /><br />PS: Only take it apart if it won't affect your warranty or if you REALLY need the info off that drive.