LCD Frisbee-Thank you!

[John Ross]

I like XP.
Much more stable than the one before, I think it was Windows 98, that ME was really troublesome.
I used to have to reformat, 3 or 4 times a year.
The XP has been going for years, no problem. I have no desire to go to Vista.
Good point about the disk battery, I think that it went once on my first P.C. 
I had forgotten, so good reminder.
Hope I remember.
John M. Ross
Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada
jrpiano at win.eastlink.ca
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Diane Hofstetter 
  To: Pianotech List 
  Sent: Sunday, August 26, 2007 5:38 PM
  Subject: RE: LCD Frisbee-Thank you!


  Thank you, Ron!
   
  I have two laptops in this condition, I tried the same solution--getting a new battery--on one.  The other lost it's hard drive--including Cybertuner.  Took it to a repair shop where they installed more memory and Windows XP---big mistake!  I was just starting back to school to study hearing full-time, and had most of my hard drive data backed up, so didn't worry about Cybertuner--I wouldn't be tuning for awhile.
   
  Now that I've graduated, I would like to tune some again, but Cybertuner is gone and XP takes up most of the machine--AND it won't run on a battery charge long enough to get across the room!  Now I at least know what to do about that--
  Thank you!
  Diane

  Diane Hofstetter

  > Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 17:56:51 -0500
  > From: rnossaman at cox.net
  > To: Pianotech at ptg.org
  > Subject: LCD Frisbee
  > 
  > 
  > Another minor saga in the life of SuperFutz!
  > 
  > For years, my old Compaq laptop wouldn't run for more than 
  > about five or ten minutes on a battery charge, so I just kept 
  > it on the charger when I used it. Finally, it started getting 
  > strange and had a couple of minor psychotic episodes that 
  > prompted me to go battery shopping. A new Lithium-ion battery, 
  > fully charged, and it fired right up - for about a half hour, 
  > then blinked out suddenly. I dinked around with it off and on 
  > for a couple of days, then just ignored it for another week, 
  > putting off the revelation that it was fried for as long as I 
  > could. This afternoon, glaring at it as I walked past, a brain 
  > cell belatedly fired. *CMOS*, it said. Well, duh. So I got the 
  > thing apart this afternoon without breaking anything 
  > important, pulled sub assemblies until I found the tiny button 
  > cell, went out and got a replacement, and put the thing back 
  > together with no major parts left over. It works. Slowly, like 
  > it always did. You'd think as many desktop systems as I've put 
  > together, upgraded, salvaged, cannibalized, and resurrected 
  > through the years, I'd have thought of the CMOS battery 
  > sooner. Argh...
  > 
  > Ron N

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