Hi!
I've got an old Tadny 600 laptop that I used to use for quick note-taking.
I "retired" it about a year ago when the battery would no longer run the
floppy and I had been given a Tandy 1400HD. Since then, the hard drive
controller in the 1400 has "lost the magic smoke", and I'd like to get the
600 running again. I replaced the NICd cells, charged them overnight, and
pressed the power switch. What do I get? Garbage filling the screen. I do
the 5-finger salute cold boot. Here's what I get:
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Uncoop System Load: Disk Error. Retry (Y/N)? _
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Disk error? from what I remember, this thing booted from ROM, and I don't
have any sort of system disk. I hit n.
It turns off. Great. I press power again, get two beeps, and this in the
center of the display:
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Unable to restart, critical system data damaged.
Hit any key to reinitialize system.
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Wonderful - system data damaged- doesn't sound good. I might as well hit
any key - can't get any worse. I hit "enter". To my surprise, I get the
old, familiar Microsoft Works 1.20 screen. I use the arrow keys to move the
cursor over "WORD", and hit enter. At the bottom of the screen, it says:
RUN application: WORD
That's where it's been sitting for 5 hours, because I can't turn it off,
either.
I also noticed that the "free memory" said that there were 976560 bytes
free. A year ago, there was only 32k.
Anyone have any suggestions?
ThAnX,
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-Jason Willgruber
(roblwill_at_usaor.net)
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Received on Sat Jan 09 1999 - 13:28:00 GMT