dongfeng
Veteran Member
Hi,,
I've managed to fix my old 486-33 laptop! It was bought in mid-1995, and given to me when it was replaced in 1998. I used it for about 6 months, and then smoke appeared out of the keyboard with a nasty burning smell and it turned off. I thought it was broken, so it got put away. I tried to fix it in 2001, but it still smoked a lot...
Anyway, I dug it out yesterday, and when I picked it up, the battery pack fell on the floor and smashed open. It was all melted and burnt inside! I plugged the power in, and the computer turned on but crashed on the Windows 95 bootup screen. I have FDISK'd and formatted the drive and installed MS-DOS 6.22 and Windows for Workgroups 3.11 from the original installation disks and it's working fine! The only problem I am having is installing the soundcard drivers - it just doesn't seem to recognise it.
This computer is in perfect condition, I have the original box and packaging, manuals, product key certificate, all original disks (3.11 and DOS 6.22) complete with their plastic sleeves. I even have the original invoice for it somewhere, for £2,000 in 1995! yikes :shock: It was originally 4mb of ram, but now has 8mb.
The HDD is around 500MB, and the brand of the laptop is "System Knock Down".
I have a question though. When the laptop was new, it came with DOS 6.22 and Windows 3.11 disks from the factory, although the original owner had Windows 95 installed for it before he bought it. However, the 95 disks (if it ever had any) are missing. I would like to put 95 back on it and somehow get it on the Internet, so I was wondering if anyone knew where I could download (or email!) the Windows 95 disks. I know there used to be a website where you could download them a couple of years ago. Did anyone download the upgrade that used to be on www.windos2000.net ?
I've managed to fix my old 486-33 laptop! It was bought in mid-1995, and given to me when it was replaced in 1998. I used it for about 6 months, and then smoke appeared out of the keyboard with a nasty burning smell and it turned off. I thought it was broken, so it got put away. I tried to fix it in 2001, but it still smoked a lot...
Anyway, I dug it out yesterday, and when I picked it up, the battery pack fell on the floor and smashed open. It was all melted and burnt inside! I plugged the power in, and the computer turned on but crashed on the Windows 95 bootup screen. I have FDISK'd and formatted the drive and installed MS-DOS 6.22 and Windows for Workgroups 3.11 from the original installation disks and it's working fine! The only problem I am having is installing the soundcard drivers - it just doesn't seem to recognise it.
This computer is in perfect condition, I have the original box and packaging, manuals, product key certificate, all original disks (3.11 and DOS 6.22) complete with their plastic sleeves. I even have the original invoice for it somewhere, for £2,000 in 1995! yikes :shock: It was originally 4mb of ram, but now has 8mb.
The HDD is around 500MB, and the brand of the laptop is "System Knock Down".
I have a question though. When the laptop was new, it came with DOS 6.22 and Windows 3.11 disks from the factory, although the original owner had Windows 95 installed for it before he bought it. However, the 95 disks (if it ever had any) are missing. I would like to put 95 back on it and somehow get it on the Internet, so I was wondering if anyone knew where I could download (or email!) the Windows 95 disks. I know there used to be a website where you could download them a couple of years ago. Did anyone download the upgrade that used to be on www.windos2000.net ?
