I tried the new hard drive again and could not get it to boot. Finally
talked to a
service tech at Memory Express and explained my predicament. He told
me that factory
installed Hate bios will ONLY accept Windows Hate OS.
They have tried to install Windows seven and did get it to run on two
machines. A couple
of others have just locked up and will not accept seven or hate. I put
the original drive
back in and it does not accept my password. Now I will have to get
them to try to get it
working again.
I am so mad I will get the case, motherboard and ram from Memory
Express and put my own
together. I have been told I will need to get the Linx drivers for the
motherboard from
the manufacturer's site and save them on a thumb drive to install when
asked to during bootup.
Any recommend for the Linx for this project.
When I get this running, I will try to return or sell the HATE computer!!
I am sending this from my Android phone.
Dale Davies
Let me get this straight. You might be getting wrong info.
Refresh my memory on this.
What brand of notebook computer do you have?
A new hard drive will not boot in any computer.
It must have an OS on it to boot.
A. Install the new hard drive.
B. Plug the USB thumb drive I sent into a USB slot.
C. Go into the BIOS by pressing esc or f1 or delete right
after you turn on the power. It varies with brand.
D. Get into boot options part of the BIOS.
E. Select boot from USB.
F. Save the BIOS setting and exit.
Mint should now boot off the USB and it takes awhile.
Once Mint is running
Mint will give you the option of installing itself on the
hard drive. It formats and partitions the HD automatically.
Did you get that far?
If not put the new hard drive in and send me the computer with
it's power transformer and I will give it a try.
You can send me the hard drive it came with and I can try
that but no guarantees.
Mint has been recently upgraded to fix the work space switcher bug.
I will down load the latest version and install that if I can.
You won't need any Linux drivers for the mother board unless
it is an off brand weirdo. I have never run across a desk computer
mother board that would not load Linux (Mint). Been doing it
for 15 years. What is the brand name of the mother board
memory express is selling you? Asus is the best. Intel also
makes mother boards.
Paul Lamar
I may be getting poor information. I will get the motherboard info for
you on the weekend (Canada Day long for us). I will also check at
Memory Express to see which components I can get. I might take you up
on your offer. I did try to use the stick you sent me using the USB
save and exit. It would not complete this even when I left it for 3
hours. Now when I try to start it,all I get on the screen is a
password box which keeps saying wrong password. This is with the
original drive installed. I tried the USB with the new drive. Beats me
as I am not very knowledgeable on the software end. Screwing and
booting stuff is usually pretty straight forward.
Dale Davies
Save and exit while in the BIOS? It only saves the boot settings.
Where are you Dale. What town?
Paul Lamar
All Windows 8 computers have UEFI BIOS which, well, I don't know what
it's supposed to do except make Linux hard to install but there should
be an option in the BIOS settings to turn it off.
Everett Rankin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Extensible_Firmware_Interface -
"The Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) is a specification that defines a
software interface between an operating system and platform firmware. UEFI is meant to
replace the Basic Input/Output System (BIOS) firmware interface, present in all IBM
PC-compatible personal computers. In practice, most UEFI images provide legacy support for
BIOS services. UEFI can support remote diagnostics and repair of computers, even without
another operating system. "
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