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January 9th 06, 08:02 PM posted to alt.sys.pc-clone.compaq
Nick Le Lievre
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Compaq Deskpro EN 6266 & 1790
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Hi I had a working machine with a 3.2gb IDE hard drive on the primary
and
a
Sony DVD rom on the secondary. I removed the Sony drive and since then
I've
been getting the error 1790 Disk 0 error. The BIOS now detects it as a
2110mb
drive and if I tried booting to DOS from floppy fdisk says it can't
talk
to
the
fixed disk. There is no way of setting the disk up in the F10 setup
and
I
have
no other setup disks what do I need to do to get it to change the
drive
settings. Reply to group or email
lid
(remove
.invalid)
I even tried putting the Sony drive back in the system and setting the
hard
drive from cable select to master (even though it was on its own on the
primary
controller) but to no avail same thing if I connect it to the secondary
controller. I hate Compaqs gimme a custom built PC anyday! Help!
Do I need to download something ie "softpaq" from HP to set the hard drive
parameters - how does this differ from the F10 setup I can already access.
All
F10 does is list the drive under IDE Devices with the incorrect parameters
and
size and I can't change them it just says press any key to continue. Will
this
"softpaq" allow me to change the settings back so my os will load again.
Is this what I need
http://h18007.www1.hp.com/support/fi...nload/263.html
Computer Setup/VP and PC Diagnostics will this do it? Do I need floppies
I need 3 floppies (damn I'm going to have to buy a box!) according to this
post
http://tinyurl.com/cd9vz
a user was getting the same error trying to install a
20gb drive. He booted from setup floppy discs and was able to enter the hd
parameters into the BIOS it then saw it as 8.4gb but the 1790 error was gone
and it worked as 20gb. Question is will Computer Setup/VP and PC Diagnostics
allow me to enter hd parameters where F10 setup will not.
Nick Le Lievre
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