(resolved)Dell Latitude CP M233ST Crash

maverick1942 · 04-19-2007, 08:17 AM

My laptop crashed and would not boot-up. I suspected bad sectors on my harddrive. I repartitioned the hard drive and reformatted same. Laptop will now boot up to DOS. I want to reinstall win98. My pc has a single modular bay. I have a floppy drive and a cdrom drive. My pc recoginizes my floppy but when i plug in the cdrom my pc does not recognize it. My win98 is on cd. I went to dells support website to try and find a dos driver for my cdrom. Went to dos page to find driver and I discovered it requires windows Op-system to load it. Help--More info on my laptop. Dell Latitude CP M233ST--Processor-M233 MHZ/MMX--memory-96 MB--Video card--Neomagic 2160--audio--Crystal 4237B--Harddrive-12073 MB--BIOS--ver-A13--System tag-ZJ3JG

**JP198780** · 04-19-2007, 08:23 AM

possible hardware problem..mobo, cpu, ram

**Terrister** · 04-19-2007, 01:22 PM

Blow out the bay the cd drive plugs into with canned air. If still no good, I suspect you need another cd drive. You can find them on Ebay.

maverick1942 · 04-20-2007, 02:26 PM

problem resolved--my boot disk was the problrm

04-19-2007, 08:17 AM	#1 (permalink)
maverick1942 Registered User Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Central Florida Posts: 4 OS: win98	(resolved)Dell Latitude CP M233ST Crash My laptop crashed and would not boot-up. I suspected bad sectors on my harddrive. I repartitioned the hard drive and reformatted same. Laptop will now boot up to DOS. I want to reinstall win98. My pc has a single modular bay. I have a floppy drive and a cdrom drive. My pc recoginizes my floppy but when i plug in the cdrom my pc does not recognize it. My win98 is on cd. I went to dells support website to try and find a dos driver for my cdrom. Went to dos page to find driver and I discovered it requires windows Op-system to load it. Help--More info on my laptop. Dell Latitude CP M233ST--Processor-M233 MHZ/MMX--memory-96 MB--Video card--Neomagic 2160--audio--Crystal 4237B--Harddrive-12073 MB--BIOS--ver-A13--System tag-ZJ3JG

04-19-2007, 08:23 AM	#2 (permalink)
JP198780 TSF Regular Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Deptford, NJ Posts: 700 OS: XP Pro, Home My System	Re: Dell Latitude CP M233ST Crash possible hardware problem..mobo, cpu, ram __________________ Amd Athlon 64 4000+ 2.4GHZ..1MB L2- cpu ECS RX480-A Socket 939- motherboard 1GB PC-3200 DDR400- RAM Nvidia GeForce 6800XT 128MB- GFX 80GB Maxtor 7200RPM- HD XP PRO SP2

04-19-2007, 01:22 PM	#3 (permalink)
Terrister Moderator Hardware Forum Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: West Georgia, USA Posts: 7,081 OS: Xp	Re: Dell Latitude CP M233ST Crash Blow out the bay the cd drive plugs into with canned air. If still no good, I suspect you need another cd drive. You can find them on Ebay. __________________

04-20-2007, 02:26 PM	#4 (permalink)
maverick1942 Registered User Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Central Florida Posts: 4 OS: win98	Re: Dell Latitude CP M233ST Crash problem resolved--my boot disk was the problrm