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start up and install problems
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Name: Robert L Carlson
Date: February 16, 2002 at 23:36:46 Pacific
Subject: start up and install problems
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Comment: I have a gateway 133 with two hard drives and a toshiba XM5702B CD rom. I formated my C: drive and could not get my system to reconize my CD rom to load in W98. I keep getting an "CDR101.Not ready reading drive F:
Abort, Retry, Fail?" message even though it shows it is reconizing the CD Rom at start up. I have tried all kinds of ways to over come this problem, to many to mention. My last resort was to reinstall my BIOS again. This did not help. I then downloaded and installed and over wrote my 1.00.10BROT with a 1.00.05. Now my system will not got any farther than reconizing my keyboard and mouse. It then just sits their and does nothing. F1 does not work nor F8. Clrl-Alt-Delete still works. I hate it when this happens. Help! thanks!
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Response Number 2
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Name: fool
Date: February 17, 2002 at 00:37:25 Pacific
Subject: start up and install problems |
Reply: (edit)remember the old 4x and slower cd-rom drives that could only read 650 mb cd's and would come up with the same error when 700mb cd were inserted? well it sounds like the same sort of thing was happening here - until you killed your bios! it's that or the cd's media descriptor was damaged, this will also cause this error. if you get your bios back to what it was, you should try anoter cd to test if your cd-rom drive is working or is at fault - yes controllers can go bad as well as anything else for no apparant reason. this can be a major P.I.T.A. - i know from experiance in 'the field'. anyway Good Luck
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Response Number 3
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Name: fool
Date: February 17, 2002 at 00:39:25 Pacific
Subject: start up and install problems |
Reply: (edit)or it could be something as simple as a loose conection or bad jumper setting!!!!
that would be lol!
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Response Number 4
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Name: Travis Langston
Date: February 17, 2002 at 02:40:34 Pacific
Subject: start up and install problems
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Reply: (edit)As for the bios problem, you may need to clear the cmos and reload the bios defaults(or setup defaults if that doesn't work) before your new bios will work properly. It's worth a try before you panic too much :)
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Response Number 5
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Name: Carrie Wilkerson
Date: February 17, 2002 at 07:59:22 Pacific
Subject: start up and install problems
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Reply: (edit)I have a start up problem on my gateway 2000. when I start up my computer it loads the mouse and keyboard then stops. It won't even let me into the DOS setup. I tried to load the boot up disk for windows 95 and that won't work. Can you help?
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Response Number 6
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Name: nandoo
Date: February 21, 2002 at 04:58:22 Pacific
Subject: start up and install problems
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Reply: (edit)hi,
i want to install pascal or c language and learn programming.
where can i get free download of them and how to run those programs using DOS and mine is WINDOWS Me.
can u please tell me the procedure and how to create,edit and run c programs.
i want to know the difference between borland compiler and turbo compiler.
can you please reply soon to my mail address
thank you
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Response Number 7
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Name: stephanie
Date: June 8, 2002 at 05:05:44 Pacific
Subject: start up and install problems |
Reply: (edit)Hi, i work on computers everyday but never on a gateway, i got my mouse to work but not my keyboard if i was to press a letter it would be a different one or number, i don't even know where the backspace key is or nothing the keyboard is all missed up could you please help me thanks!
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Response Number 8
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Name: Jean
Date: July 14, 2002 at 16:52:59 Pacific
Subject: start up and install problems |
Reply: (edit)I have a start up problem on my gateway computer, it's the 95 version that I bought used. I prior owner said that his son wiped out the "C" drive. He gave me Windows 95 to see if that would restore it but it didn't. When I start up my computer it loads the mouse and keyboard then stops. I don't have the boot/restore disk. Is there anything I can do?
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