Just to follow up - I tried what you recommended, after 6 attempts to get
the thing to boot up - nothing other than what I previously reported was
evidident. The date and time were ok, but scandisk refuses to operate
Paul
"Noel Paton" wrote in message
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This looks like a hardware problem to me - either the CMOS battery is
dying, or your motherboard.
Try removing the main battery from the laptop, and unplugging from the
mains - leave it for half an hour.
Then attach to the mains again, and reboot - what exact errors do you get
in trying to boot to Safe Mode?? Note especially any time/date errors.
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"Paul" wrote in message
news
I'm running a Toshiba S1800-400 LapTop, running ME. Suddenly it's
starting to play up with windows freezing producing either: -
OE 017F BFF8E64B or
OE 0167 BFF9A0F
BSOD's
Now it's refusing to boot past the safemode startup - if I check start
windows normally, it just comes back to the safemode option. Booting up
to safemode usually hangs the os after a minute or two and when booting,
now shows "Bad Checksum (Rom)"
I noticed prior to these problems, that boot up sometimes didn't occur
until I tapped the Laptop and also sometimes the os would freeze when
inserting a cd or dvd rom.
Am I suspecting a damaged or broken CD/DVD Rom drive?
Anyone else have this problem or could give me advice please?
TIA
Paul
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