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Hi

For some reason my battery does not hold a charge and then l picked up another battery and then l had the same problem.

I played with the Bios loking for something and then it appears my hard drive failed.

I brought it into the geek squad and they said that my charger failed but it's new and then they told me that the hard drive went and l should buy a new one.

What will l need to get the T61 up and running again? I was advised where to pick up the hard drive but what about the xp pro cd
etc?

Thanks

Alan

PS l was going to sell the T61 but l was told that l could have blown the mother board and then it would be a waste of time.

My unit can get the micro welcome screen and everything relating to F1 F2 F10 F11. I ran a diagnostic on the hard drive and said it failed

It seems odd to me that by just playing with BIOS that the hard drive failed. Let me ask you, if you go into BIOS and into configuration, then SATA, what is the current setting? Try changing it and saving/exiting BIOS.

I hit F12 and a boot menu appeard

2: ATAPI CDO : STCD-RW/DVD DRI
4: ATA HDDO: Hitachi HT S542580K9SA
5: PCI LAN: IBA GE SLOT 00C8 V24

<enter setup>

Yes, then hit enter to go into setup and look at the setting I mentioned.

Harryc wrote:Yes, then hit enter to go into setup and look at the setting I mentioned.

Bios setup utility

config

date/time
security
startup
restart
hdd diagnostic program

then it lists
BIOS version 2.09
BIOs date
embedded controller version
etc etc

nothing that mentions SATA

By the way cpu type intel (R) core (TM) 2 duo cpu T7250
cpu speed 2.00 ghz
installed mem 2048mb

Yes, go into config

Serial ata (SATA)

SATA Controller mode option [AHCI]

kingman99 wrote:Serial ata (SATA)

SATA Controller mode option [AHCI]

Just clicked ACHI and it changed to Compatibility

it is asking me to save config changes and exit now
l will hit yes

a blue screen appeared and vanished in 2 sec.s and went back to the
We apologize for the inconvenience, but windows did not start and then the micro wind zp window opened.


very frustrating

OK, change it back to ACHI (save it), go to the main BIOS screen and into hdd diagnostic program...run it. Tell us the results.

Harryc wrote:OK, change it back to ACHI (save it), go to the main BIOS screen and into hdd diagnostic program...run it. Tell us the results.

OK l qwill run Main hard disk drive. I ran this yesterday it took awhile

Thanks

Harryc wrote:OK, change it back to ACHI (save it), go to the main BIOS screen and into hdd diagnostic program...run it. Tell us the results.

Status Test Complete

results Pass: Controller diag


error code 0000: Read verification failed


In Red

An Error was found. call for service.

That was it nothing else

Thanks again

You need a new hard drive.

Hi

Thanks for trying, l was told where to get the hard drive but what else will l need? I had a wind xp pro cd but can't find it.

Thanks

Again

You'll need recovery CD's. Post a WTB Ad in the Marketplace forum.

One more thing to try before buying anything. Download Hitachi Drive Fitness Test. Run the long test. It will report on the bad sectors. At that point, you will have the option to repair the sectors. If the repair is successful and the sector problem wasn't in the restore partition, you will be able to restore from the partition.