Toshiba satellite 2060CDS Boot Problem

[Damned Angel]

starting while holding "c" may only work for the origional internal toshiba cd-rom drives. I have never tested an older unit with anything except for the cd-roms that came with the units.

as for the error, what is the full error message? Is windows already installed? have you already installed software/drivers?

The more info the better.

[cthierfelder]

I guess, you are right with the "C" that's the proeblem..

The complete error message is:
an exceptional error O6 occured on adress 2087:001D262
you can type any key or
strg-alt-del to restart the computer.

(any key does not work. Restart is the only possibility ending up in the secure mode next time)

The whole computer was working with windows 98. All drivers were already installed. The cd was working as well.
In the device manager I cannot find any errors (strange,he)
There must be a trick to start a cd although the unit is not original.
Or not?
Is there a possibility to repair/reinstall something out of the secure mode from teh windows side?

Thanks
Chris

[confus-ed]

My this recovery cd is helping 'muchly' ... not!

I'm still not certain whether this 'recovery cd' is actually attempting to start or not, I don't do that much work with lappies to say whether what you are telling me says the cd is trying & failing for whatever reason, or simply not reading at all, looking at the evidence so far I'd say the cd disk itself is damaged (scratched) ...

Is it possible at least to check this recovery cd elsewhere ? (I know you can't really use it - unless you happen to know someone with an identical lappie who wants it restoring !) - but I want to make sure that the cd itself is at least readable?

I can however diagnose your error a little (from the m$ kb)..

06: Invalid Opcode Fault
This error is returned if any one of the following conditions exists:
The processor tries to decode a bit pattern that does not correspond to any legal computer instruction.
The processor attempts to execute an instruction that contains invalid operands.
The processor attempts to execute a protected-mode instruction while running in virtual 8086 mode.
The processor tries to execute a LOCK prefix with an instruction that cannot be locked.

Which says to me some code is ammiss somewhere's, with windows sadly that could be pretty much anything ! at least however it says not hardware which is good

Let's try some 'simple' stuff.

Start in Safe mode (what you are calling 'secure' mode) & run a scandisk on your hard drive (your error might just be a corrupt file) also while you are there run sfc (system file checker) & see what that throws up. If you have any anti-virus (that will run in safe mode-not all will, but most) try that too ...