[nmglug] Another curious conundrum

[Lee Einer]

The curious conundrum resolved-

I downloaded the bios software from HP. It gave me the I/o settings for
the cdrom, which enabled me to install Zenwalk.

Unfortunately, even after installing the HP/compaq bios, the damn thing
will not keep time or retain many of the settings, which tells me that
the CMOS battery is hosed, and it is installed so that it is not
replaceable. I will part this junker out and keep the bits and pieces
for other adventures.

lee


Lee Einer wrote:
> Again, thanks to all who helped me recently with the partition issue on
> my laptop.
> 
> I recently received a junker Compaq Prolinea 575 PC as a donation. I was
> going to refurb it and give it out (it has a peewee hard drive and only
> 48 meg of ram, but I figure Zenlive will work on it) but I cannot get it
> to boot from the CDROM.
> 
> You would think that all one has to do is change the boot order in the
> Bios, no? Well on this PC, the CMOS chip was so rinkydink that there was
> not room on it for the bios, so they put a bios partition on the hard
> drive. At some point, probably when the previous owner upgraded the hard
> drive or the OS, that partition was eliminated. So, no bios. This beast
> will not even remember the date and time.
> 
> I tried loading SmartBootManager, but this also does not detect the
> CDROM. Any suggestions as to how I can get this thing to boot from the
> hard drive?
> 
> Lee
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