Hi! I've got an old Tadny 600 laptop that I used to use for quick note-taking. I "retired" it about a year ago when the battery would no longer run the floppy and I had been given a Tandy 1400HD. Since then, the hard drive controller in the 1400 has "lost the magic smoke", and I'd like to get the 600 running again. I replaced the NICd cells, charged them overnight, and pressed the power switch. What do I get? Garbage filling the screen. I do the 5-finger salute cold boot. Here's what I get: -------- Uncoop System Load: Disk Error. Retry (Y/N)? _ -------- Disk error? from what I remember, this thing booted from ROM, and I don't have any sort of system disk. I hit n. It turns off. Great. I press power again, get two beeps, and this in the center of the display: -------- Unable to restart, critical system data damaged. Hit any key to reinitialize system. -------- Wonderful - system data damaged- doesn't sound good. I might as well hit any key - can't get any worse. I hit "enter". To my surprise, I get the old, familiar Microsoft Works 1.20 screen. I use the arrow keys to move the cursor over "WORD", and hit enter. At the bottom of the screen, it says: RUN application: WORD That's where it's been sitting for 5 hours, because I can't turn it off, either. I also noticed that the "free memory" said that there were 976560 bytes free. A year ago, there was only 32k. Anyone have any suggestions? ThAnX, -- -Jason Willgruber (roblwill(a)usaor.net) ICQ#: 1730318 <http://members.tripod.com/general_1>