The Coaster Queen Arrives!

[Guest n00bie]

Hi everyone --

I've been reading this forum (and related ones) for years, rention has been arbitrary... Old senile woman LOL.... so old the first SUSE I loaded was 5.0 -- and even got the sound to work... Just don't ask me HOW ....

most all Xtions I've had I found answer using "search" and figgered well, if I had money i'd gladly donate it, the 2nd best "Thank you" is don't waste yer time and bandwidth for social "Net-Barking"

Then I got into laptops ... <insert "group groan" right about here>

Dammit, I've managed to get through loading Gentoo on a Mac G4... Then I get this Goat-Weigh laptop at the pawnshop for $100

The thing works dandy, other than "gommed up" ..... oh the dreaded Ub-er-Proprietary Laptop Bio$ and hardware .... Life woulda been great if MisterT didn't castrate the GPL, coz now things like hideous proprietary hardware (WLAN, specificly) don't work...

Dumbass moi went to reload the OS and .... =ziggidy boom = Burned enough coasters to tile the floor.

Kanotix/Knoppix live CD's run fine, for as long as I wanna runnit. Try to run ANYTHING "Win32--ish" ... even "Rainforrest Ghost" off CD or USBand the box kills itself after about 5 into loading

.... would someone kindly direct me to the proper salon? (for elderly harware +security geeks that can't fix a $100 GoatW8)

Thanku and GOd Bless

n00b

[dencorso]

Welcome to MSFN, n00bie!

You got my attention, but unfortunately all our crystal balls are at the repair shop at the moment...

So, in order to be able to help you, I need more info (specifics, mind you, not generics):

• which laptop exactly are you having trouble with?
  
• which windows do you want to install in it?
  

Cheers!

BTW, buy yourself a couple of RWs... that'll stop the coaster factory.

[Guest n00bie]

• which laptop exactly are you having trouble with?
  
• which windows do you want to install in it?
  

Cheers!

ThaNKS for the quick reply.

This is a g8w8 MODEL:MX6421

Turion (wimpy) 512 FSB, ATI mobile200, very generic stuff

System Information (record 1)

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Manufacturer (SM): Gateway

Product Name (SP): MX6421

Version (SV): 3402558

Serial Number (SS): T355C11004556

UUID : C0 C9 8F 17 DA 1D B2 11 80 00 97 02 4E DC 22 81

Baseboard (Motherboard) Information (record 2)

---------------------- ---------------------------------------------

Manufacturer (BM): Gateway

Product (BP):

Version (BV): 6802

Serial Number (BS): T355C11004556

System Enclosure Or Chassis (record 3)

---------------------- ---------------------------------------------

Manufacturer (CM): Gateway

Chassis Type (CT): Portable

Version (CV): Rev.1

Serial Number (CS): T355C11004556

Asset Tag Number (CA): No Asset Tag

OEM-defined (CO): 0x00001234 (4660)

MF'd around 2005 according to bios, had win MCD 2005 (all legal licensed and everthin)

one of them that came without the CD

Tried plain old MCE CD set first. Nopey... (repeat for several variations of XP)

What happens is the load gets past the yellow bar then machine just powers down no beep no nothing

I'm thinking there's some kind of hardware lock in there? Like

G8Way PwmZ Thz Bx?

The machine will run linux. It'll run "Multi-Boot-rescue-disk" It will run a Live XP diagnostic disk.

It will run dos, sort of.

Even tried one of them GhostXP disks...

"Ghosting" an OS image fails 1/2 way before ghost is done

Course, I could yank the HD and pop it onto handy-dandy Instand USB thingy and just cheat...

---- Actually, I use the CD's for yard sale signs ;-)

(ya mite be a hiteq rennek iffff....)