In the wee hour of 09:30 PM 4/18/01 +0200, stevens bequeathed such tales as
these:
>Hi, I am working on a "Compaq Presario 4830" that crashed it's
>hard drive. The new drive is a Seagate 10MB unit, but it is only
>recognised as about 8MB by fdisk and format.
>
>Am I up against the 8MB BIOS barrier? What do I try next? It will
>format, ( FAT32 ) and load Win98, but then the "System Device Manager"
>shows an error signal on the Primary IDE Controller report, and says
>that no hardware drivers are loaded.
>
>Also the key strokes to entering the Presario BIOS would be a very big
>help??
>
>Pat Stevens. ZIMBABWE. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Pat, the Compaq's sometimes have a separate partition on the hard drive for
their ROMPaq which replaces the motherboard BIOS chip. It sounds like your
new drive doesn't have one so you can go here to download it
ftp://ftp.compaq.com/pub/softpaq/sp8501-9000/SP8886.exe and go here to read
up on it's features
ftp://ftp.compaq.com/pub/softpaq/sp8501-9000/SP8886.txt. HTH
Peter Kaulback
I haven't failed, I've found 10,000 ways that don't work.
Thomas Edison (1847-1931)
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