RE: [OT] Compaq Armada 1592DT

["Mark Harrison" <Mark.Harrison@xxxxxxx>]

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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