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WD HD on Compaq
Name: Chris Trebesch Date: January 28, 2003 at 18:43:13 Pacific OS: W98 CPU/Ram: 32
Comment:
Do you need a Quantium Harddrive on a Compaq, because i installed Windows 98 and it worked and i restarted twice. Now it wont pick up the harddrive, just say disk controller error. My quantium HD works just fine on it, but i dont need a huge HD init so i want to use my WD. The WD works on everything else ive tested it on. Compaq just seem's to always not like what you ad to it.
Name: ryan Date: January 28, 2003 at 18:52:54 Pacific
Reply:
it should work fine..... i never heard of this case before...did you check all the cables and make sure they are not loose?? also check the bios settings.
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Response Number 2
Name: Chris Trebesch Date: January 28, 2003 at 20:59:59 Pacific
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Its a older compaq, and im unable to enter the bios. Ive tried the normal F1, Del, Enter, Esc to enter bios but it dont work.
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Response Number 3
Name: bowtie1 Date: January 28, 2003 at 21:07:57 Pacific
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Entering the BIOS setup on a compaq is different than other computers. when you first turn on the computer watch for a flashing block in the upper right corner. once you see this block, press f-10. This should get you into the bios setup
Summary: My brother has a compaq with a 1.5gb hd, has just bought a 30gb hd and wants to swap drives (cannot add it because of no cage to put it in). If the bios is stored on the hd like some compaqs are, wil...
Summary: The MB isn't that old and I am using a maxtor 250GB and a 40 GB right now. Also I did try using the WD HD on a PCI RAID and it still didn't work, I've got the latest bios version. MB is a TYAN S2466 ...
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