[AT] OT - big computer problem

Skip Cleveland skipcleveland at bellsouth.net
Wed May 28 07:14:37 PDT 2008


Google "Toshiba computer problems" and then you will get a little better 
insight into what you are facing. By the way, my 2006 Toshiba 42" plasma TV 
Christmas present literally blew up, googled that and found many others with 
identical problems. Toshiba repaired it out of warranty after 5 months, the 
shop ran it for a month to see if it would smoke again. It is on sort of a 
lifetime warranty on the exploding power supply.
Skip
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Indiana Robinson" <robinson at svs.net>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2008 9:40 AM
Subject: Re: [AT] OT - big computer problem


> One possibility... Go to ebay and get a copy of Linux on a "live CD".
> Ubuntu is probably the easiest for a windows user to understand without
> a big learning curve. Unless your hard drive has physically crashed your
> system will boot to the Linux (You may have to change the bios at setup
> to boot from the CD first). You will not be able to run Windows programs
> but it will read your files and you can move them to another media using
> Linux. Note: it "must" be a "Live CD" in order to boot.
> Knoppix or Puppy are two other good choices in case your system is not
> up to Ubuntu's minimum system requirements but since you indicated it
> was pretty new it should be OK.
> Puppy Linux is sometimes sold as a Windows rescue disk. It is only
> about 100 MB. Another good one called Damn Small Linux is only about 50
> MB. You can download the ISO file for them since they are smaller
> (Google search) but then you need to download a program like
> BURNCDCC.EXE to burn them making them a "Live CD".
>
>
> And here you all thought I was going to say to "check the grounds"...
> ;-)
>
>
> -- 
>
>
> "farmer"
>
>
> "Everything that can be invented has been invented."
>   -- Charles Duell, Commissioner of US Patent Office, 1899
>
>
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>
>
> Francis Robinson
> Central Indiana, USA
> robinson at svs.net
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