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Offline Ilwrath

Re: Remote assistance
« Reply #14 from previous page: January 06, 2004, 08:39:42 PM »
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however the despro I have got, has no such partion, and there is nothing in the bios that should be upsetting win2kpro, I have looked throughly.

I find it strange, cause when I had the machine it had nt4 workstation on it, so i tohught great, ill wipe this and just stick win2k on it, no dice.


There was a certain type of early power-management that would upset Win2k badly enough that it wouldn't install cleanly.  Forget which it was.  I remember I had to apply a BIOS update to my old P1 and then disable all power management features.  (I don't remember if the BIOS update was for the power-management or to enable larger HDs, though!)

Also, a faulty CD ROM drive will cause Win2k to install corrupt.  (Seems it doesn't actually check the integrity of the files as it is copying them to the HD)  I spent a couple hours chasing that problem, once, as well.  ;-)
 

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Re: Remote assistance
« Reply #15 on: January 06, 2004, 08:40:27 PM »
If I were to install another OS on the HD, something like Linux or whatever and it installs it's own bootmanager, would that clash with the Compaq BIOS prog?

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Re: Remote assistance
« Reply #16 on: January 06, 2004, 08:51:08 PM »
TightVNC  ( I haven't used this, just came accross it).
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Re: Remote assistance
« Reply #17 on: January 06, 2004, 08:52:03 PM »
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If I were to install another OS on the HD, something like Linux or whatever and it installs it's own bootmanager, would that clash with the Compaq BIOS prog?


I think you should be ok, so long as you do a manual partitioning and make sure that the partition remains marked as in-use in whatever partitioning program you use.  I don't recall having problems when going from the 98 bootloader to NT4 on a Compaq like that.  I don't think I tried Linux on one, though.  (Last time I used a Compaq of that style was at a job I was working several years ago.)
 

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Re: Remote assistance
« Reply #18 on: January 06, 2004, 08:54:38 PM »
@lo
Ah interesting, I wasn't aware of other versions.

@ilwrath
Okay, I'll have a muck about with that machine in a few weeks I think.

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Re: Remote assistance
« Reply #19 on: January 06, 2004, 09:42:30 PM »
cheers for your help guys.

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