[lug] Re:

[ljp]

On Wednesday 31 December 1969 04:59 pm, you wrote:
> I've got an old Toshiba Satellite 205CDS that I'm setting up with just the
> essentials (ssh,ftp,etc.).
>
> The only way I've been able to get it to show the BIOS is to take the
> battery out to clear everything. All the websites I've found say that
> holding esc down during power-on is supposed to display the BIOS. But
> that's not working.
>
> Anyway. So I accidentally take the battery out while it's shutting down and
> now it's o nly showing a blank screen (yeah, I put the battery back in :}
> ). I'm hoping something as simple as that wouldn't trash it. This is my
> first laptop. Is that the case? If that's uncommon, does anyone know if
> there's a battery other than the battery pack that keeps the clock ticking
> and could be holding a "resume" state on this thing? I'm kinda hesitant to
> open it up at the moment.
>
> I'm not sure if I can live with myself if'n fact I destroyed a $25 laptop?
> :{
>
> TIA,
>
> John

On my Toshiba 1605 CDS, it's F2 to get into the bios. You could have 
interupted a 'save to disk' or someother such function.
Toshiba has a great web site, although it is kinda hard to navigate. But, 
goto www.toshiba.com, click on Products and services->computer systems, 
portables->up at the top clickon Support->Sevice Center (support- on the 
right)->Tech Support Center->select Portables->Satellite->205CDS it will 
display downloads and info for that laptop. The whole site a weird javascript 
with cookies the whole way, so I can't give you a link that will work for 
you. :(
There's a users guide, which is in a windows exe file.. so....

I'm sure there's a bios battery somewhere in there.

ljp