OK, gang, I have a used compaq deskpro, pentium 100, 32 MB, 1 gig. I have
no idea what BIOS because when you boot - compaq has conveniently
eliminated that screen (?). I do get MSCDEX 2.25 and SBOS 1.45 in the
dos-like section of win95 startup.
I have a new 8 gig IDE drive and have been told that i'd probably need to
upgrade the bios for the system to read it.
I have RedHat and Apache. And Cold Fusion Studio. THis is just for
development, not for web serving. CF Appl server needs a web server and I
want an in-house dev environment.
I also have to upgrade Win95 because CF said so when I tried to start the
program -- something in windows is too old [i didn't write down the error
message] and I don't get my little icons for B, I, etc. And Access isn't
working either. Sigh.
OK - here go the questions:
1) How do i figure out what deskpro model I have and what BIOS i have? i've
scoured the compaq site to no avail.
2) I've been told BIOS upgrades are ~$100 -- yes no maybe? i don't even
know where you go to GET one. compaq? msft?
3) Does a MB upgrade include BIOS? I can get MBs here in seattle for $80
up, depending on manufacturer. can you put a new MB in a compaq?
4) Or do I shrug and spend $600 on a clone system and just keep the
monitor? [i really DON"T want to do this]
5) How does one set up a wintel machine to dual boot, windows and linux?
Kathy
who thinks there are far too many things that can go wrong in BillLand
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should live next door and just visit now and then.
--- Katharine Hepburn
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