Recent content by rosie78

tHE PROBLEM IS IT DOES NOT ALLOW ME TO DELETE PARTIOTIONS, only create new ones if there is unassigned space. that's why i use win98 first :(

I lost driver disk and manual for ethernet card in my laptop. Where can i find what kind of ethernet card i have so i can download a driver for it? perhaps there is a list on the web of commong laptop componens. such as ethernet cards, video chips etc?

My laptop does not have a floppy drive so I can only format it through the CD. However, win XP and win98 can format, but win2k can't. i'd use winXP, but my laptop is incapatible with it, and win98 does not have all the drivers i need. so in order to install win2k i first format with winXP, then...

is it possible that by taking apart a laptop i would somehow damage or burn BIOS or motherboard? and if yes, what exactly did i do to damage it (i.e. scratch a chip, change a wire, improper connection of RAM to the slot etc.)

The brand i have is IBM T22-2647. someone told me that hard drive has a special voltage and if you remove it voltage gets reset and if you put the wrong (reset) voltage HD back in, mother board can burn.

I've disasembled by notebook in order to find the video chip. I unscrewed the visible screws and took apart hard drive, RAM (and i guess mother board is underneath), CD-rom and something called controller. anyways, after putting everyhthing back properl;y (or at least that's what i thought), i...