RE: [OT] Compaq Armada 1592DT

["Kenneth Watt" <kennwatt@xxxxxxx>]

Thanks Mark I'd kinda gotten that a bit after reading a whole load of
stuff about putting *shudder* Linux on the machine, but you just
confirmed what I thought.

I'll give Compaq support a try and see what they come up with as the
original drive was shagged anyway.

K.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Harrison [mailto:Mark.Harrison@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 07 April 2002 08:55
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] [OT] Compaq Armada 1592DT
> 
> Kenneth,
> 
> Bad news - on the 1592, the BIOS management program is supplied on
disk,
> rather than in the firmware. From new, the laptop would have come
with
a
> separate partition showing the BIOS manager, and you would have
had
the
> option as running it as part of the DISK boot sequence rather than
the
> POST.
> 
> If you have the original disk, you will need to boot from that
partition
> first to make your BIOS changes to see the new HDD. It _may_ be
possible
> to boot from a Linux bootdisk and get the files off, but it's NOT
a
DOS
> partition, so you can't simply COPY from a DOS boot ;-(
> 
> Alternatively, you may need to find the original Compaq CD-ROM,
and
(if
> you can't boot from it), boot from a DOS floppy with CD-ROM
drivers,
and
> run SmartStart that way ;-(
> 
> Real pig - no idea why Compaq did it that way.
> 
> Mark Harrison
> Head of Systems, eKingfisher
> 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kenneth Watt [mailto:kennwatt@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 7 April 2002 08:36
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] [OT] Compaq Armada 1592DT
> 
> 
> That's what I was told, but there is no Compaq screen that
appears!
> 
> K.
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Stuart Whyte [mailto:lists@xxxxxxx]
> > Sent: 07 April 2002 08:22
> > To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> > Subject: RE: [ukha_d] [OT] Compaq Armada 1592DT
> >
> > >From memeory press F10 at the compaq screen.
> >
> > HTH
> >
> > Stuart
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Kenneth Watt [mailto:kennwatt@xxxxxxx]
> > Sent: 07 April 2002 00:59
> > To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> > Subject: [ukha_d] [OT] Compaq Armada 1592DT
> >
> >
> > After searching the net in a fruitless search...
> >
> > Can anyone tell me how to access the BIOS in the above
machine,
there
> > seems no way to do this! All I want to do is put a new HDD in it
and
I
> > cannot seem to get the machine to see the drive, or boot from
CDROM.
I
> > was told that in the initial boot sequence a Compaq logo
should
flash
> > up, it doesn't!
> >
> > I can get the machine to boot to DOS from a 98 floppy no problem
but
> > FDISK cannot see the HDD at all and only sees the virtual C
drive.
> >
> > HELP, I want my laptop back!
> >
> > K.
> >
> >
> >
> >
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