Toshiba TECRA 750CDM

Thanks Bob,

Yes, I had obtained new drivers for Win98 earlier before getting the new 20-GIGhard-drive.

What I really did was:

1. Using the Recovery CD that came with the System, it was recognizing the new 20-GIG Hard-drive as 5.1Gig partioning it with 2.0Gig for the Primary Drive and 2.8 Gig for the secondary Drive (D).

2. As 1) above is not what was expeceted, I formated the new 20-GIG Hard-drive with Win95,

3. Installed Win95B

4. Copied all other program files and/or reinstall all other programs that came with the Recovery CD.
Everything seemed to be working here except that when I re-install the new IDE drivers for the Hardisk Controller, things go haywire. So this was left uninstalled.

5. I used the Win98 Upgrading CD to upgrade as I had done earlier before the new 20-Gig hardrive without any problem. But here is what my problem starts:

After the installation of the Win98 upgrade and all the hardware setup jargons, the system shuts down to restart; and when it restarts, this is where I get a blue screen with the message that there is "Disk Write Error - Unable to write to disk in Drive C - Data and files may be lost - Press any key to continue." When this is done, there comes the message: "While initializing device SHELL:
Cannot find or load required file KRNL386.EXE - Press any key to continue." If done, machine shuts down. If I wait for a while (some seconds), the next message is: An internal stack overflow has caused this session to be halted - Change the STACKS setting in your CONFIG.SYS file and then try again. At this point, the machine freezes. I have to pull out the power source plug to get it off.

So this is my problem. I hope I have answered your question.

Thanks again.

When you wrote " above is not what was expeceted, I formated the new 20-GIG Hard-drive with Win95," I must admit that Windows 95 doesn't support such and may end up with some 2GB partitions and setup the owner to FAIL in bizarre ways when they upgrade the OS later.

All the futzing with Windows 95 is likely the cause of your issues. If this was my machine, I'd wipe it out and install the OS I wanted without installing an older OS that will create an install headache.

Bob

I have just tried. What I noticed initially is that the sound device of the system cannot be recognized. Thus, there is no sound from the system.

Any idea what to do?

Then I would check for a driver to install from Toshiba's web site.

I found it in just about 5 clicks from google.com at...
http://www.csd.toshiba.com/cgi-bin/tais/su/su_sc_modItemList.jsp?moid=1073769799&ct=DL&BV_SessionID=@@@@1749212773.1097169828@@@@&BV_EngineID=ccceadcmkdheidgcgfkceghdgngdgmn.0

Why not pick up the drivers?

Bob

Thanks again, but here is another problem:

After the installation of Win98 and later went on the net, I was automatically taken to Windows Update website where I was provided with about 12 programs to updated which I did.

After this, mys system has become veerrryyy slow, sometimes not responding and thus freezing.

Any reason for this?

That's been discussed in the 98 forum. As it's been discussed there and you were successful in getting 98 on your machine then we're done here.

Glad to see you got it going.

In closing, never accept a driver from Windows Update. or else...

Bob

I visited the website and as I mentioned earlier, I have all the drivers found there relating to Tecra 750CDM and that of sound Yamaha ..... has already been installed. Yet still, there is no sound.

The last time I noted that as well that the sound was labled off by one model and it still worked.

You may get the joy of calling it in to see why they do that. But many can't find the control panel to push up the sound volumes. I don't offer any Windows 101 training, sorry.

Bob

Thanks Bob,

It is help that I need (and I'm sure that's what these forums are for) but not training.

If you feel that way, then I am sorry.

I'll try to live with my problem.

You have to feedback what you've done. For me, it's a matter of execution and telling what you've done.

If you don't know Windows, we have a Newbie Forum and there are always web sites about specific areas as well. I will not duplicate web content (I'm forbidden from doint that, just read the forum policies) and some take that the wrong way.

So tell if you installed the driver and used the Sound Control panel to push up the volumes. I hinted at this, but you seem to not have done this.

Bob

Hi Bob,

I have install the drivers and used the sound control panel to push up the volumes. I had done this earlier.

While struggling on my own, I realized that the sound is disabled in the sytem setup (BIOS?) page. I enabled it and saved it; and when I restarted the system, I noticed that there was sound but it was very very faint. When I went back to the setup page, I noticed again that the sound was still disabled.

There is a slight difference from a BIOS page to some system setup page. I only know what you tell me.

If its disabled in the BIOS, try the BIOS defaults and save them. Best of luck,

bob

try this/press f1 to enter bios and make sure that your onboard sound is in the enable position/i had the same problem.