When I reload Synaptic, I get the following message at the end:

Yes, devuan_daedalus_5.0.0_i386_desktop-live.iso is the file I downloaded. It has a datestamp of "2023-08-15 03:38:06".

Thanks!!

When I was first attempting to boot the Tecra A7 with Devuan 5, I was using a USB Flash Drive.

I didn't realise at the time that there was a Blank DVD in the Optical Drive Bay. I was going to buy a blank DVD but I can't remember now what prompted me to open the Drive Bay.

I have Devuan 5 installed on the Dell and used Xfburn to create a Live DVD of Devuan 5 and with that I was able to boot the Tecra A7.

So yes, I was using Thunar from the Live DVD on the Tecra A7.

Hope that helps.

Looks like the RAM could show up on Tuesday.

I got 2 x 2GB DDR2 667MHz KVR667D2S5/2G Laptop Memory SDRAM Kingston for $AUD12.59 for the Toshiba and 2 x 8GB DDR3L 1600MHz PC3L-12800S Laptop RAM Kingston HyperX Impact for $AUD29.99 for the Lenovo which I will test in the Dell also.

The major scum, that be not much longer, are already being taken down. Some (like HRC apparently) have already been executed. The mopping up of the low level useful idiots (e.g. Freemason Filth and other psychopaths, in the Police, Academia, Polity, Media, Education, Judiciary et al) will be one of the last tasks to be done but it's going to be ongoing for decades.

Where does Core2 Duo/Quad line up in the chronological order in relation to Gen 1, 2, 3, etc?

Nothing theoretical about the Deep State. Pull your head out of the sand. The DS are the communists. Big Oil (Rockefellers et al, Banksters et al, Bill Gates et al) are the communists (Khazarian Cabal) which are being taken by the Military Alliance with DJT who has President and Wartime C-i-C (Commander-in-Chief) since 2016.

You just need to know about Laws and Orders, The Law of War Manual (revised May 2016) and the Executive Orders that DJT signed and are still in effect as they have not been rescinded by the "Joe Biden" who grew a few inches a few months back, funny that.

https://rumble.com/user/RattleTrap1776/videos

The White House is closed and has been for some time. The Federal Reserve is gutted and the IRS is all boarded up too.

Well you need to read on then mate. You probably think the convid jabs are safe and effective too.

Can these be penetrated by malevolent Black Hat Deep State Actors (a.k.a evil govern-ment)?

Is there a technical/speed advantage or disadvantage to having SWAP at the end of the drive?

Does having SWAP at the end make it easier to reconfigure the other partitions when necessary?

Videos would go on the partition for User Files.

Thanks!!

I just want to make sure there's nothing fundamental at a lower level that could be causing the problem.

If, after using chkdsk /F on the drive, the Intel Boot Agent problem has gone, then, it indicates the possibility that maybe I buggered something up with it when removing and reinstalling it.

Then I will feel more comfortable about getting a new drive and RAM for it.

Happy New Day Folks,

I spoke too soon about solving the Intel Boot Agent problem.

I thought I would check it again this morning and it appeared again.

So, after disconnecting the Hard Drive and reconnecting it again, I got the same screen that I mentioned in Post #41 which can be viewed from the following link.

https://icedrive.net/s/jGG49ff4hkix7yXtDjFvWgRYSNaN

There is a Warning stating the following:

0251: System CMOS checksum bad - Default configuration used

Could it be that the CMOS (RTC) battery is coincidentally on the way out or could it be related to the removal and reinstallation of the Hard Drive?

So, I disconnected and reinstalled the Hard Drive again and after following the "Fourth Fix: Reset Power" of the following page I managed to get the Laptop starting again but the Intel Boot Agent problem still arises. If I enact the F12 Boot Menu option when the BIOS Splash Screen displays and select the HDD option the Laptop still boots Windows XP.

I'm starting to look into the CMOS checksum problem.

Thanks! for the great advice.

The Laptop will be used mostly as a Desktop whilst connected to the electricity supply.

I haven't been able to find any specific information regarding Phoenix BIOS 1.70 and which standards it supports.

The original drive is an Hitachi HTS541060G9SA00 (5400 RPM).

https://www.hdsentinel.com/storageinfo_ … 1060G9SA00

SATA 1 supports bandwidths up to 150 MB/s.

SATA 2.0, was introduced in April of 2004 and supports bandwidths up to 300 MB/s. So, maybe this Laptop could support SATA 2?

The following page suggests it could be possible.

https://www.gigabyte.com/lt/Motherboard … -S2-rev-10

According to Page 2 (19) of the Maintenance Manual:

According to Page 7 (24) of the Maintenance Manual, it appears that this Laptop uses the Intel Calistoga 945GM Chipset as this particular Laptop has a dedicated Graphics chip.

On Page 8 (25) of the Maintenance Manual, it states the following regarding Memory:

However, 2 x 1024 MB modules would only make 2 GB. I saw similar information on Page 23 of the official Intel document located at the following link.

https://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/p … asheet.pdf

It says:

However, on page 17, Revision Number 002 (April 2006) indicates that support for 4-GB physical memory @ 667 MHz was included. Is that just a documentation revision? Did they forget to include 2 GB RAM modules perhaps?

Page 21 of the User's Manual (First Edition January 2006 - so I think this Laptop is actually 2006 vintage) states:

It seems like some of the documentation may not have been properly updated in various documents?

I found on Ebay that it appears Toshiba did make a 2GB module whose naming convention matches that of the 1GB module Part Number that is in the User Manual (see post #32 above). The 2GB module has a Part Number of PA3411U-2M2G which is for the 533MHz frequency. There is also a PA3513U-1M2G PC2-5300 module for the 667MHz frequency. However, the RAM is actually unbranded.

https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/392835396777

These 2 pages appear to indicate that the Laptop can use 2 GB modules.

https://www.datamemorysystems.com/dms-m … a7-100.htm
https://www.datamemorysystems.com/dm50-190/

I'll contact this shop as buying from the USA should hopefully be more secure anf communicative. Still no reply from the Ebay seller in China.

Yesterday morning, for the second time, I removed the original Hard Drive (with Windows XP on it) to check that a more modern and higher capacity Hard Drive (WD 500GB Blue, 5400 RPM) was detected by the BIOS and could be recognised and accessed with Thunar using the Devuan 5 Live DVD. That was successful.

However, after reinstalling the original drive, when I boot the laptop, the BIOS splash screen is displayed but then warning beeps are heard with the text displayed on the screen that you can see in the following image.

https://icedrive.net/s/DjxGzFTawuxGkF2azxzy76A5BV39

I have to press the power button to turn off the Laptop.

Starting the Laptop again, if I press the F12 key when the BIOS splash screen is displayed, I can access the Boot Menu and select the HDD option and it then boots normally to the Win XP logon.

The day before yesterday, when I first removed the original drive and reinstalled it, the Laptop booted without problems afterwards.

Did installing the 2nd Hard Drive cause something to be changed in the BIOS? The 2nd hard drive was formatted for booting on UEFI systems but I did not attempt to boot from it.

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