From: Bruce Markowitz (scosgt_at_worldnet.att.net)
Date: Mon Feb 19 2001 - 16:44:01 EST
It may be dependant on your BIOS level or the exact model. In general I find
that the 75X series gives the ISO message and won't boot without a hard
drive present. A PCMCIA hard drive is a hard drive, so that may work anyway
----- Original Message -----
From: "William Van Tuyl" <wvantuyl_at_iso.net>
To: "Bruce Markowitz" <scosgt_at_worldnet.att.net>
Cc: "Paul Khoury" <pkhoury_at_loop.com>; "Joe D" <jdworsky_at_ix.netcom.com>;
"ThinkPad List" <thinkpad_at_cs.utk.edu>
Sent: Monday, February 19, 2001 2:32 PM
Subject: Re: Thinkpad 755C boot problems
> Gee Bruce, my 755C doesn't follow your rules. It just booted from a
floppy w/o
> a hd and vice versa. And then it booted from a PCMCIA drive w/o floppy or
hd.
> I didn't try the rest of the options in setup - network, FDD-2, HDD-2,3,4
but I
> may sometime later. It sounds interesting.
>
> Bill
>
> Bruce Markowitz wrote:
>
> > I disagree
> > The system will boot without a floppy, but not if it does not see a hard
> > drive.
> > Make sure you are using an appriate hard drive in an appropriate caddy.
Try
> > cleaning the contacts of the hard drive plug with some alcohol or tuner
> > cleaner. The HDD plug may have worn out - a know issue I have had on
several
> > machines.
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Paul Khoury" <pkhoury_at_loop.com>
> > To: "Joe D" <jdworsky_at_ix.netcom.com>
> > Cc: "ThinkPad List" <thinkpad_at_cs.utk.edu>
> > Sent: Monday, February 19, 2001 1:25 PM
> > Subject: Re: Thinkpad 755C boot problems
> >
> > > On Sun, 18 Feb 2001 23:50:14 -0600, Joe D wrote:
> > >
> > > >I just swapped some old computer junk for a 755C and a 360CSE. (wife
> > > >said "as long as the new junk takes up less space than the old junk!)
> > > >Resurrecting them is turning into a challenge. The 755C tries to
boot
> > > >(has no hard drive, but does have a floppy drive) and whether or not
I
> > > >have a bootable floppy in the drive, it gives me this line-art
graphic
> > > >showing an image of a floppy being inserted into a floppy drive with
a
> > > >flashing arrow at the F1 key. Is this the old thinkpad equivalent of
> > > >"please insert a bootable disk"? If I put in a disk (bootable or
not)
> > > >it just beeps and says I9993035. I had visions of swapping the good
> > > >display from this one into an old 755 CE I had, but found out they
> > > >aren't as similar as they look - so I figured I'd work on this one.
> > > >
> > >
> > > Joe, this means that the floppy is not bootable, or at least the
computer
> > > thinks it's not bootable. The I999xxxx error means the computer
couldn't
> > > load an OS. If you have another floppy drive, I'd try that, as well
as
> > reseating the
> > > floppy you already have. Also, try formatting the floppy as
> > > format a: /u /s - this does an unconditional format, then copies
system
> > files.
> > > If that doesn't work, last thing is to go into Easy Setup, and check
the
> > boot
> > > order of the drives, and make sure the floppy is first.
> > >
> > > Paul
> > >
> > >
>
>
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.3 : Thu Jan 23 2003 - 09:56:50 EST