First post, by bjwil1991
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Last week, I received a Toshiba Satellite Pro 410CDT, Syba Dual CF to 44-pin IDE adapter, and external floppy drive for the laptop. I plugged the laptop and external floppy drive in and the laptop started right up. The system was able to boot after I went into the BIOS to change the settings. The laptop came with a 1.5GB IDE HDD that still booted up, but it's making a clicking sound. I then replaced the HDD with an SSD method (CF to IDE) using a 4GB CF card running MS-DOS 6.22 and Windows 95 (3.1 to 95 upgrade) with Plus! 95. The 4GB CF card consists of 2GB for the OS and utilities, including drivers, and the rest for games. The FDD does work without issues, then comes the sad part: CD drive is broken.
When I opened up the CD drive, I noticed the laser assembly motor that turns the shaft to move the laser back and forth was stuck (bearing wasn't moving). After freeing it up and oiling it, the laser assembly moved once again, and the CD drive refuses to read CDs. Attempted to repair the laser assembly without any success, then when I power on the laptop, the time and date, including, but not limited to, the BIOS settings keep erasing.
For the CMOS battery charge, do I really need to run the system for 48 hours for it to charge, or will it charge when power is applied no matter what? I am planning on buying refurbished or new parts for the laptop or find a parts laptop that has a broken display to swap some things around and do refurbished CMOS and Wake/Resume batteries charge without issues and does that mean the cells were replaced before in its lifetime and being sold as refurbished?
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