Guest ms Posted September 1, 2007 Posted September 1, 2007 I saw a used old laptop at a garage sale, a Dell 486. There are many jacks around the case, but I don't recognize any as the usual telephone jacks I see on a desktop modem. Does the laptop modem jack look different? Is there a URL to a image of a typical laptop identifying connectors? Also, with a missing floppy disk drive, so no boot disk possibility, how do you get into Safe Mode with just a CD drive? ms
Guest John Dulak Posted September 1, 2007 Posted September 1, 2007 Re: Laptop connectors ms wrote: > I saw a used old laptop at a garage sale, a Dell 486. > > There are many jacks around the case, but I don't recognize any as the > usual telephone jacks I see on a desktop modem. > > Does the laptop modem jack look different? > > Is there a URL to a image of a typical laptop identifying connectors? > > Also, with a missing floppy disk drive, so no boot disk possibility, how do > you get into Safe Mode with just a CD drive? > > ms Ms: A 486 probably doesn't HAVE a built in modem. See if you can find the specs on the Dell site. John -- \\\||/// ------------------o000----(o)(o)----000o---------------- ----------------------------()-------------------------- '' Madness takes its toll - Please have exact change. '' John Dulak - Gnomeway Services - http://tinyurl.com/2qs6o6
Guest dadiOH Posted September 1, 2007 Posted September 1, 2007 Re: Laptop connectors ms wrote: > Also, with a missing floppy disk drive, so no boot disk > possibility, how do you get into Safe Mode with just a CD drive? ??????? Safe mode requires neither floppy nor CD drive. Nor boot disk. One pushes the appropriate keys when booting to load Windows in safe mode. What those keys are I cannot say as I enabled a boot menu so I merely have to select it should I want it. In other words, you get to safe mode just as you do on your other computer(s) though the key combo may be different, don't know. -- dadiOH ____________________________ dadiOH's dandies v3.06... ....a help file of info about MP3s, recording from LP/cassette and tips & tricks on this and that. Get it at http://mysite.verizon.net/xico
Guest ms Posted September 1, 2007 Posted September 1, 2007 Re: Laptop connectors ms <ms@invalid.com> wrote in news:5jtaqoFnkefU1@mid.individual.net: > I saw a used old laptop at a garage sale, a Dell 486. > > There are many jacks around the case, but I don't recognize any as the > usual telephone jacks I see on a desktop modem. > > Does the laptop modem jack look different? > > Is there a URL to a image of a typical laptop identifying connectors? > > Also, with a missing floppy disk drive, so no boot disk possibility, > how do you get into Safe Mode with just a CD drive? > > ms Thanks to all, still need a laptop image to identify typical connectors. Will search for it. ms
Guest RobertVA Posted September 1, 2007 Posted September 1, 2007 Re: Laptop connectors ms wrote: > ms <ms@invalid.com> wrote in news:5jtaqoFnkefU1@mid.individual.net: > >> I saw a used old laptop at a garage sale, a Dell 486. >> >> There are many jacks around the case, but I don't recognize any as the >> usual telephone jacks I see on a desktop modem. >> >> Does the laptop modem jack look different? >> >> Is there a URL to a image of a typical laptop identifying connectors? >> >> Also, with a missing floppy disk drive, so no boot disk possibility, >> how do you get into Safe Mode with just a CD drive? >> >> ms > > Thanks to all, still need a laptop image to identify typical connectors. > Will search for it. > > ms Most of that vintage would probably have a male nine pin connector for a serial port, a female 25 pin connector for parallel port, a round female six pin external keyboard port and a fifteen pin female VGA port. There may be proprietary ports for an external drive and/or a docking port. Many manufacturers would mold little icons representing the devices to connect adjacent to the port. A lot of notebooks also had slots for PC card devices like modems and Ethernet cards.
Guest ms Posted September 2, 2007 Posted September 2, 2007 Re: Laptop connectors RobertVA <robert_c72athotmail@invalid.com> wrote in news:u1rfM1O7HHA.600@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl: > ms wrote: >> ms <ms@invalid.com> wrote in news:5jtaqoFnkefU1@mid.individual.net: >> >>> I saw a used old laptop at a garage sale, a Dell 486. >>> >>> There are many jacks around the case, but I don't recognize any as >>> the usual telephone jacks I see on a desktop modem. >>> >>> Does the laptop modem jack look different? >>> >>> Is there a URL to a image of a typical laptop identifying >>> connectors? >>> >>> Also, with a missing floppy disk drive, so no boot disk possibility, >>> how do you get into Safe Mode with just a CD drive? >>> >>> ms >> >> Thanks to all, still need a laptop image to identify typical >> connectors. Will search for it. >> >> ms > > Most of that vintage would probably have a male nine pin connector for > a serial port, a female 25 pin connector for parallel port, a round > female six pin external keyboard port and a fifteen pin female VGA > port. There may be proprietary ports for an external drive and/or a > docking port. Many manufacturers would mold little icons representing > the devices to connect adjacent to the port. A lot of notebooks also > had slots for PC card devices like modems and Ethernet cards. > Thanks for that, I did not find an image of all the connectors, but in searching it is as John Dulak said even for later laptops, the comments were all about ethernet, I never saw anything about Dun. ms
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