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PLEASE NEED HELP WITH PACKARD BELL
On Tuesday, February 18, 2003 at 9:02:43 PM UTC-5, Velix wrote:
Ben Myers a écrit : Robert, The original message you posted stated that the BIOS showed "640K Base Memory 03200K Extended 256 Shadow RAM Area". That all adds up to 4MB of memory on the motherboard, hardly enough to do much of anything. The next step would be to find some more memory to install in however many 72-pin SIMM sockets there are. You will need fast-page mode memory with parity. I'm not absolutely certain about the requirement for parity. It may be possible to disable parity checking on the motherboard. The motherboard is of the vintage that probably accepts only 4MB and 16MB capacities. Try for at least a couple of 16MB SIMMs, taking the total system memory to at least 32MB, enough to run a fairly basic Windows 95. (I have an old IBM 486 ThinkPad color notebook with 40MB, and it loads and runs Windows 95, word processor, web browser, essentially one program at a time.) ... Ben Myers On Tue, 18 Feb 2003 20:05:09 GMT, REH wrote: Velix donotreplybymail@nospamformeireallydontcaretodob usinesswithspammers.com wrote in news:3E51989D.544165E0@nospamformeireallydontcare todobusinesswithspammers .com: Try an original PB restore boot disk made with files 141233.exe or 141357.exe. It should have a driver for Panasonic CR-5XX drives. Download it from http://web.archive.org/web/200104292.../archived_file s/restdisks/index.html Insert a formatted disk and run the app to create the boot disk. Once you let it boot, hit escape until you get an A prompt. Then look for your CD to be set as D, Y or Q. If not, try all the letters left. Good luck Velix I tried your suggestion, and it worked. The Packard Bell will now boot with CD ROM support. Unforunately Windows 95 will not install on it. Says that it needs 2,816,000 bytes of extended memory. Error reads "Not enough free extended/XMS to run setup. Setup needs approximately 2816000 extended/XMS memory to run setup. This Packard Bell had Windows 95 on it to begin with! Can anyone PLEASE tell me what to do to get Windows 95 OS back on this rickety, blankety, blank, blank computer? Any information will most certainly be appreciated. Thanks for all of the help so far on this. Robert, London, Kentucky Try to download file 142589-03.exe instead to create a boot disk. It is made to startup Win95 and contains the drivers for your cd drive. Maybe your Win95 installation problem was caused because the other two disks were made for Win3.11 since you already had Win95 on the system before. Same procedure as before to create the disk, let it boot and hit escape until you get the A prompt, look for the cd drive to be set up has Y. Good luck Velix I realize how old this is and I'm sure nobody is going to reply at this point, but does anyone know where I can find 142589-03.exe? It's the one file that seems to no longer exist at that site and I need it to restore my Packard Bell! |
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PLEASE NEED HELP WITH PACKARD BELL
This is a simple fix metronid
Answer is on ELECTORS SITE. I PUBLISHED A WORK AROUND. |
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