Hi, I recently bought got a Toshiba T5100 from a garage sale for $5 bucks. I'm quite surprised that it turns on, though I'm getting 2 errors:
1. CMOS Battery is dead, so I have to reconfigure that, each time I turn it on (Besides switching it off and on rapidly). I've read somewhere that the CMOS Battery can be supplemented with a AA Battery. Is this true? And what am I expected to do, to get one installed into the system?
2. The Hard Disk fails to load, giving this message: "ERROR INITIALIZING HARD DISK CONTROLLER" to which it goes to a CMD Prompt screen asking me to enter the system disk, which I'm unaware of whether I should supply a standard DOS bootdisk, a proprietary bootdisk, or maybe even have it just boot a custom Freedos floppy distro? It doesn't seem to recognize any of the HDD settings I supply it with in hopes that I stumble upon the right config, so what's the risk in trying that?
And also, I haven't seen much documentation on the system in terms of how it looks on the inside. I've only ever owned one other DOS Portable computer, and it went dead on me and I had it thrown out by some jerk who promised he'd fix it for me. Hence, my knowledge of these pre-Thinkpad laptop systems is very little. I don't think that many people would own this particular system, but if they do, I would appreciate either a fairly concise diagram of the internals, or maybe someone could just snap a few shots of the system opened up? I would really appreciate that, as I bought this without any documentation and only a standard power cable.
Thanks again,
Albert
EDIT: I realize there's a chance that the HDD may be toast, of all things. What type of HDD is in this system? Because I haven't got a good knowledge of what was around before IDE, or is that what it is?
1. CMOS Battery is dead, so I have to reconfigure that, each time I turn it on (Besides switching it off and on rapidly). I've read somewhere that the CMOS Battery can be supplemented with a AA Battery. Is this true? And what am I expected to do, to get one installed into the system?
2. The Hard Disk fails to load, giving this message: "ERROR INITIALIZING HARD DISK CONTROLLER" to which it goes to a CMD Prompt screen asking me to enter the system disk, which I'm unaware of whether I should supply a standard DOS bootdisk, a proprietary bootdisk, or maybe even have it just boot a custom Freedos floppy distro? It doesn't seem to recognize any of the HDD settings I supply it with in hopes that I stumble upon the right config, so what's the risk in trying that?
And also, I haven't seen much documentation on the system in terms of how it looks on the inside. I've only ever owned one other DOS Portable computer, and it went dead on me and I had it thrown out by some jerk who promised he'd fix it for me. Hence, my knowledge of these pre-Thinkpad laptop systems is very little. I don't think that many people would own this particular system, but if they do, I would appreciate either a fairly concise diagram of the internals, or maybe someone could just snap a few shots of the system opened up? I would really appreciate that, as I bought this without any documentation and only a standard power cable.
Thanks again,
Albert
EDIT: I realize there's a chance that the HDD may be toast, of all things. What type of HDD is in this system? Because I haven't got a good knowledge of what was around before IDE, or is that what it is?
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