[Lancaster] Toshiba Satallite

[andy baxter]

OK, sorry. Like I said I'm not really a hardware person.

Rik - is the hard drive in a separate bay, or did you have to open the 
whole case to replace it?

andy

Gareth Lees wrote:
> There may not be an obvious cable on a laptop, the drive sometimes 
> just plugs into the slot and the cables are fixed to said slot. I 
> believe it's that way on my Macbook and certainly was on the HP.
>
> Gareth
>
> 2009/8/16 andy baxter <andy at earthsong.free-online.co.uk 
> <mailto:andy at earthsong.free-online.co.uk>>
>
>     resending...
>
>     There should be a cable going between one set of pins on the
>     motherboard
>     to a similar set of pins on the drive. What kind of cable depends on
>     what kind of drive you bought - could you look at it and say what the
>     connectors (at one end) look like? (or else send a photo to the list,
>     showing the drive and the motherboard of the laptop.)
>
>     andy
>
>     Rik Boland wrote:
>     > It makes one big beep?
>     >
>     > What r the cables when I put the hard drive in it just had pins!
>     >
>     > Shalom
>     >
>     > andy baxter wrote:
>     >
>     >> At a wild guess it sounds like you need to check your hard disk
>     cables
>     >> ('Media test failure...'), but I'm no expert on hardware, and
>     someone
>     >> else might have a better idea. Does the machine make a beeping
>     sound
>     >> when you turn it on? sometimes you can learn something from the
>     pattern
>     >> of the beeps - e.g. one short, two long might mean a problem
>     with the
>     >> video card (just an example - it varies between machines).
>     >>
>     >> andy
>     >>
>     >> Rik Boland wrote:
>     >>
>     >>
>     >>> Got new hard drive and put it in now a message comes up
>     >>>
>     >>> Bad check sum (ROM)
>     >>> Check system. Then press {F1} key
>     >>>
>     >>> When I press this I am sent to BIOS the machine resets itself
>     and reads
>     >>>
>     >>> Intel(r) Boot Agent Version 4.1.03
>     >>> Copyright (c) 1997-2002, Intel Corporation
>     >>> PXE-E61: Media test failure, check cable
>     >>> PXE-MOF:Exiting Intel Boot Agent.
>     >>> Insert system disk in drive.
>     >>> Press any key when ready....
>     >>>
>     >>>
>     >>> When I do the same message appears.  Any idea's PLEASE!
>     >>>
>     >>> Shalom
>     >>>
>     >>> Rik
>     >>>
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