Hello,

I just fired up an old Toshiba Satellite 1605/cds4.3
that I "inherited" from my son.  It's dusty and tired,
clunks and whirrs.  I have no papers.

F2 to the BIOS, and it said there's no hard disk.  I
turned it off.

I turned it on again.  After about 10 minutes, the
Windows 98 splash screen
comes on and there's a louder whirring sound.

10 minutes later, I get a black screen with white lettering
telling me "Warning:Windows has detected a registry/configuration
error.  Choose, Command prompt only, and run SCANREG."
But the machine doesn't respond to anything I input.

My idea was to network all my old machines.  (I also
have a 6 year old 386 and a P2).

Does it sound like this machine is worth working with?
(I'm a neophyte vis a vis computer innards)

Thanks,
Diane

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