If something of apparent interest occurs during my next efforts, I will pass it along. In the meantime, sir, thank you for your patient help.

Thank you, ajkula66. Indeed, after removing the wireless card and pressing the SouthBridge, I was able to get past the flash screen, even into the BIOS to re-set the time, and then made it as far as the sign in screen to XP. I very much appreciate your help. But can you explain to me what is involve...

Why yes, I did do this project myself. I just hope I can fix my fix this boner. I'm asking for help, indeed I'm sending out an S-O-S along with the following War & Peace length forum question. I am working on a T43-2687. It had 1.5 GB RAM. My job was to increase it to 2. To do this, I had to replace...