So I got my hands on a positively ancient sony Viao laptop (633mhz single core processor, 300mb of Ram or so) It had a seriously dodgy keyboard so I shelved it for a while until I could figure out what to do with it.
I recently dusted it off to try and install XP on it in an attempt to run Maxivista so I could have a third display. However the format failed several times. Eventually I booted into a Gparted live CD and formated from there. After two further failed attempts at XP installation (unable to copy critical files) from two different disks it now fails to boot. No BIOS, just a blank screen.
I think the hard drive may have gone kaput, does this sound likely? If so I want to rip the LCD off it and build a new monitor, any other suggestions for what to do with a bricked laptop? (except for binning it of course)
Any help much appreciated
I recently dusted it off to try and install XP on it in an attempt to run Maxivista so I could have a third display. However the format failed several times. Eventually I booted into a Gparted live CD and formated from there. After two further failed attempts at XP installation (unable to copy critical files) from two different disks it now fails to boot. No BIOS, just a blank screen.
I think the hard drive may have gone kaput, does this sound likely? If so I want to rip the LCD off it and build a new monitor, any other suggestions for what to do with a bricked laptop? (except for binning it of course)
Any help much appreciated