danleff

This is an old post (3/06), so the person is no longer likely around. Also, the ERD disk is no longer easily available, as Microsoft aquired Winternals, the developer of this utility. All links default to Microsoft's web page.

Did you follow the directions and how-to articles on the Netgear support page?

If you have a full Windows XP installation disk, you can try a repair of the installation. See some detailed instructions here. Please note all the warnings!

Did you consult the motherboard manual here? Looks like you have a 2x10 power cable? If so, look on page 49 figure 25 and note the cautions on page 49.

If you do not get an answer from the fine folks here, try this forum to post your question. BTW, I will delete your second post, as iy is a duplicate of this one.

Take a look at this Intel article on the issue.

I have no real experience with this, but does this package seem to fit the bill?

What exact version of Windows are you running? Do you have a VPN client installed on the system to access the network at your work site? If you don't know, then this is likely not the issue. Did you seek out an answer from Norton support of look at their website for a solution?

Your motherboard has an AGP graphics port, not a PCI-E slot. You will need a VGA card. Also, consult the motherboard manual about what voltage is supported. From what I see, make sure that it is a video card with +1.5 voltage rating, not 3.3V.

I assume that you were following the directions on the wiki page located here? When you have the partition mounted, is the output of the mount command the same as on the wiki page. Also, hda1 is your actual Windows drive? The command ls -l /mnt/hda1/ shows your Windows file structure, as in the example? Some systems have a hidden recovery partition, which may be hda1. Just checking to see if this is not the case with your system. Finally, what type of files did you write to the partition, and did you write them to the root directory, or elsewhere?

You mean that you have one physical drive in the system and created one or more partitions on the drive? What file system did you use to make the partition for ubuntu? ...and you did not get the options to edit a partition, as demonstrated in the pics on this site?

Given your limited system requirements, you are likely to have problems with Ubuntu and SuSE 10.3. Ubuntu System Requirements openSUSE Hardware Requirements I would say perhaps Puppy Linux. but I don't know about the IR keyboard. Any chance on upgrading the memory? How do you propose to install the distro with no optical drive on the system? What laptop is this?

If the issue is seeing the partitions during the installation, I wonder if you are looking in the right place to point the installation to the partition that you set aside. If you pre-partitioned the drive, you need to manually set the partition during the installation that you want to use. Take a look at this installation guide. Did you pick the option to manually edit the partition table?

Without knowing what laptop system that you are using, it;s hard to say. But according to the Ndiswrapper database it should be possible. What version of Fedora or Ubuntu are you planning to use? Try the latest, such as Fedora Core 7 or Ubuntu 7.04 and see if it works out of the box. This assumes that you have a system that supports the newer distro's system requirements.

Are you running the memory at the voltage and latency settings referenced in the link to the Kingston site that I gave you on your other post? KHX6400D2LLK2/2G 2GB 800MHz DDR2 Non-ECC Low-Latency CL4 (kit of 2) 4-4-4-12 2.0V Consult your motherboard's manual to set the bios settings. Quote: In the bios DD2 1.8v is marked as FAIL and in red? See the data sheet for you modules on the Kingston page, as they default to 1.8 volts at 5-5-5-15.

Take a look at the motherboard users manual under the memory installation pages. For the bios, additional advanced bios options can be found by pressing CTRL F1 when in the bios. Also, look at the Kingston memory specs page here for more information.

Did you try setting the bios to the optimized settings?

Also see your other post which may be related to this issue.

OK, so you downloaded the zip file, unzipped it and burned the iso image to a cd, as per the instructions on the Partition Logic page? What cd burning software did you use and what speed did you burn the image at? It should be burned at 2X or 4X speed, not the full capacity of the drives ability.

From you other post, it seems that you have been in the bios? Did you try to set the bios settings to optimized defaults? Any messages that you can see when the system is posting that give a clue what might be happening? Any chance that there may be a short in the system, where the motherboard is coming into contact with the case? Did you use insulation washers on the motherboard screws? ..and you are sure that you placed the connectors for the Power button, reset and so forth correctly?

Quote: I did download SUSE Linux for 64 bit. I also downloaded the ndiswrapper 1.48. Which is supposed to have gotten rid of the 64 bit glitches. Yes, but if you are using the 64 bit version of SuSE, then you still need 64 bit drivers. Quote: Oh and I did an upgrade Then you have a new kernel and Ndiswrapper would most likely need to be recompiled for the new kernel. IF you did do so, you need to make sure that you uninstalled the drivers that came with SuSE, then recompile the downloaded version. See the Ndiswrapper page for uninstall instructions. However, they recently changed their site and a lot of helful hints for SuSE (distribution specific help) have not been updated yet, from what it looks like. But the point is you still need 64 bit Windows drivers. Quote: Is there any other card you can recommend that might be easier to install? It's been a while since I played with my SuSE installation, but I have a Ralink wirless card and it works well. Also see this article on Ralink support. You may also want to wait for SuSE 10.3, which us due out sometime this week. Hopefully support for wireless will be better.

This question is for the Windows gurus, I'm a Linux junkie and could tell you how to do it with a Linux bootloader. Anyway, to clarify. Since you are speaking of a laptop, I assume that you have both "images" on the same hard drive? If so, what is the partition structure? Quote: I suspect (but what do I know) that its because both images are used to being in the first partion of their own hard disk. Yes, if both are on the same hard drive. I did do this a while back, but forget how I actually did it using the Win bootloader. Also, see this article.

Are you running a 64 bit version of SuSE? If so, from what I have read, you need 64 bit drivers. According to Netgear's site here, they do not plan on making 64 bit drivers. Additionally, did you upgrade to SuSE 10.2, or do a clean installation? When you choose to use different versions of Ndiswrapper, you also must uninstall the old package before installing the newer version. This includes the version that comes with SuSE vs. the one from the net. Finally, take a look at the Ndiswrapper page located here.

Let's go one step at a time. Quote: I installed some some software(don't remember the name) which showed the linux partitions on windows system which i downloaded from net. A seperate drive was created(R drive) and it showed grub folder contents only in it. I deleted the software but the drive did not disappear. It would be helpful if you could remember what the software was. It seems from your description, that it was some sort of boot manager software? Quote: I decided to delete the Linux from my system and deleted the Linux Partition using Partition Magic 8. If you deleted the Linux partition and some or all of the boot reference files were on that partition, then this is why you are getting the grub "prompt." There are no grub reference files on the system anymore to allow grub to work. Of course, this is assuming that you installed the grub bootloader on the MBR of the hard drive. Quote: After a few failed attempts of booting through XP cd, now the computer doesn't start atall. Even as i switch on the system power button, i don't see CPU fan rotating. I've a SATA hard drive(160GB) and when i start the computer with IDE hard drive(my spare drive) the system boots! It sounds like you corrupted the hard drive with all the changes that you tried to do. The XP installation disk will not read Linux partitions, if that is what is resident on the beginning of the hard drive. So, the installer fails, as it sees no valid fat32, NTFS or empty hard drive to work from. Since you used PartitionMagic, did you make recovery floppy disks as recommended after the changes that you made? If so, use the floppy disks to boot the system and ascertain what partitions are on the disk and where they are. Do the boot disks bring up PM and the disk is seen as "bad" meaning that it can't determine valid or consistent partitions on the drive?

See your original post for a reply.