Hi.

My daughters laptop that has got her uni work on is poorly...please help

It is an ibm think pad    pent 3 700mhz 128 memory.



When you turn it on it goes through the boot screen then beeps twice and in

the boot screen everything is ok apart from the last bit which reads

ATAPI CD-ROM : Hitachi

DVD-Rom  GD-S200

ERROR

0175 BAD CRCI,

STOP POST TASK



It then just hangs there...after a while the screen goes blank but laptop

keeps running.

Does any one know what this means..If i try to enter bios it hang and if i

pust F12 ( it calls it " SELECT TEMORARY BOOT DRIVE) it also hangs.

Would be most greatful for any help with this.

Thank you

Phill.

"Phill" <Phill@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

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> Hi.

> My daughters laptop that has got her uni work on is poorly...please help

> It is an ibm think pad    pent 3 700mhz 128 memory.

>

> When you turn it on it goes through the boot screen then beeps twice and

in

> the boot screen everything is ok apart from the last bit which reads

> ATAPI CD-ROM : Hitachi

> DVD-Rom  GD-S200

> ERROR

> 0175 BAD CRCI,

> STOP POST TASK

>

> It then just hangs there...after a while the screen goes blank but laptop

> keeps running.

> Does any one know what this means..If i try to enter bios it hang and if i

> pust F12 ( it calls it " SELECT TEMORARY BOOT DRIVE) it also hangs.

> Would be most greatful for any help with this.

> Thank you

> Phill.



It sounds as if your CD drive is failing. Remove it and check

what happens.

HI. Thanks for that , But i have tried that. I do get a different error but

it still hangs at the same place. the error says.



fixed disk 0: IBM-DARA-212000

ERROR



I'm wondering if it is the hard drive failing as it says fixed disc 0.....



Thanks again

Phill









"Pegasus (MVP)" wrote:



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> "Phill" <Phill@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

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> in 

>

> It sounds as if your CD drive is failing. Remove it and check

> what happens.

>

>

>

Since you had a smiliar error message with the CD drive in

place, I suspect you have an IDE controller problem. It's

probably time to involve the IBM Helpdesk.





"Phill" <Phill@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

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> HI. Thanks for that , But i have tried that. I do get a different error

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> it still hangs at the same place. the error says.

>

> fixed disk 0: IBM-DARA-212000

> ERROR

>

> I'm wondering if it is the hard drive failing as it says fixed disc 0.....

>

> Thanks again

> Phill

>

>

>

>

> "Pegasus (MVP)" wrote:

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