Greetings fellow PC Guru's....
I have an ancient Toshiba Satellite Pro (mod 420 CDT) with a whopping 1358mb hard drive and I'm thinking 32 to 64mb's ram. I need it only for one simple dos pg for my studies. I can get it to C: prompt but it does not recognize any dos commands nor any drive letters and just asks for a system boot disk over and over. Bios doesn't respond nicely either. I'm thinking two different things here; 1) a bad CMOS battery or 2) a bug in the hard drive. My question is where is the CMOS located on this dinosaur. If there is a bug in the hard drive and I take it out and take a peek in it through my desktop mite I catch the same bug? I have several old drives around and I could just disconnect my good OS HD's and boot a DOS mirror to it and take a look see that way. I'm almost sure that CMOS is dead as a hammer and needs replacing. I've broken the unit down to a point, but it doesn't want to come apart that easy and a nagging part of me wonders is there is or is not a CMOS in this particular model...and if so why so hard to replace them? (Other than the obvious!) Any help would be appreciated.
I have an ancient Toshiba Satellite Pro (mod 420 CDT) with a whopping 1358mb hard drive and I'm thinking 32 to 64mb's ram. I need it only for one simple dos pg for my studies. I can get it to C: prompt but it does not recognize any dos commands nor any drive letters and just asks for a system boot disk over and over. Bios doesn't respond nicely either. I'm thinking two different things here; 1) a bad CMOS battery or 2) a bug in the hard drive. My question is where is the CMOS located on this dinosaur. If there is a bug in the hard drive and I take it out and take a peek in it through my desktop mite I catch the same bug? I have several old drives around and I could just disconnect my good OS HD's and boot a DOS mirror to it and take a look see that way. I'm almost sure that CMOS is dead as a hammer and needs replacing. I've broken the unit down to a point, but it doesn't want to come apart that easy and a nagging part of me wonders is there is or is not a CMOS in this particular model...and if so why so hard to replace them? (Other than the obvious!) Any help would be appreciated.