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    CF-73 boot issue

    Discussion in 'Panasonic' started by Diamondb, Jan 4, 2013.

  1. Diamondb

    Diamondb Newbie

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    I just picked up a CF-73 mark 5 which boots to bios fine. Made sure that boot order was set to HDD first. Put in the caddy and HD from my other mark 1 (completely functional machine) and just as the windows XP logo appears, it goes blue screen for about half a second, then cycles power.

    Any idea why the machine would behave like this? I am assuming that the mark 1 and mark 5 would be able to switch drives without problem.

    Really appreciate any insight.

    Thanks,
    B
     
    Diamondb, Jan 4, 2013
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  2. Shawn

    Shawn Crackpot Search Ninja and Options Whore

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    mark1 to mark5 is quite a difference in hardware. You'll probably have to do a fresh install of windoze.
     
    Shawn, Jan 4, 2013
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  3. ADOR

    ADOR Evil Mad Scientist

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    Both Pc's have the Pentium M CPU, BUT what is causing you problems is the Mk1 has 855 chipset while the Mk5 has 915 chipset. If you have major changes in your hardware windows wont' boot. It's a built in anti-piracy thing. No as long as you have another harddrive and windows install cd(assuming you still have the COA on the bottom) all should be good.

    Maybe it's time I do a CF-73 thread.
     
    ADOR, Jan 5, 2013
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  4. Toughbook

    Toughbook Drop and Give Me 20!

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    As you have experienced and have been told.... No Worky!

    Each needs their own drive.
     
    Toughbook, Jan 6, 2013
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  5. cmbdiesel

    cmbdiesel Newbie

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    Same issue with an E series to an X.

    But, installed fresh WinXP sp2 onto X hard drive.
    Gets through windows splash screen and hangs up on a blank touch screen page.
    All black with large white arrow.
    I can touch the arrow all over on the functional touchscreen, but cannot get machine to continue into windows....

    If I boot into safe mode I get same screen followed by blue screen and
    *** stop 0x0000004 error...

    Any ideas?
     
    cmbdiesel, Mar 29, 2013
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