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My laptop was acting like not reading the floppy until i inserted the correct diskette.

Janos

Thank You very much, i solved my problem. The Crisis recovery diskette You suggested works like a charm, just that i had to change the CPU. It appears that is bad. I changed it and could flash the BIOS. After flashing it, i changed back the CPU, but it hangs after a short time. With other CPU, the l...

Well, the floppy drive works more, around 3 seconds and then stops... I changed the bios file, then i tried to change phlash with newer version, tried to copy config.sys from the compaq diskette. It looks like that: buffers = 20 files = 15 shell = a:\phlash.exe /C /MODE=2 /S /PN /DVS:0F20 Er000714.R...

Thank You!
I will try and post the result.

Best regards,

Janos

Thank You, but it doesn't...

It just checks floppy, the mototr doesn't stop, but it doesn't read, not the OS, nothing... I assume it searches something specific. I already modified the autoexec.bat like that: phlash.exe rom.bin. Nothing...

Bets regards,

Janos

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