First I doubt seriously a 160 GB drive will work. The 4800s do not support
48-bit LBA which is required for drives larger than 127GB. Secondly, the
BIOS in that series is very basic with no HD parameter settings. In fact,
there is an 8 GB HD size limit on the 4824 and below. You might try
installing a PCI IDE controller with its own onboard BIOS.

HH

"z0man" wrote in message
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z0man wrote:
I just recently aquired one of these older things and I am trying to
install Linux on it. I managed to install it once. Then just after
adding a graphics card all hell brakes loose on this thing.

I believe I have found a solution, and it requires for me to change the
Harddrive mode (LBA thing). How do I change it!?

There is no upgrade for the bios. I looked it up at HP for firmware.

Any help be most helpful

z0manifest

Compaq Details
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160 Gig Samsung Harddrive
Diamond3D Stealth 32Mb memory

PS
By the way to get linux SuSe 10.0 to work on a Compaq Presario 4840 with
the the standard onboard graphics ATI Rage 4mb , use LiLo

AHA!!! Figured it out.

Make a boot Partition at the beginning of the drive. Basic size is 10mb
but 15mb if you want to test with the kernel. The kernel and linux is
designed to support LBA. Just if old motherboards aint, you just ignore
it, if you can.

z0man