Nick Le Lievre wrote...

Nick Le Lievre wrote...

Nick Le Lievre wrote...

Nick Le Lievre wrote...

Nick Le Lievre wrote...

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.


Aha the clue is on the HP support page "*

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Computer Setup/VP and PC Diagnostics
version 1.76 A * (27 Aug 98)


»*revision history

Aha the clue is on that HP support page

"For all products except the Deskpro EP, SB, and EN Series, Computer Setup and
PC Diagnostics are both pre-installed on the Diagnostics Partition. Both
utilities can be run by pressing F10 during power-up or reboot when prompted
in
the lower right corner of the screen on some models or when the cursor jumps
to
the upper right corner of the screen on other models."

It goes on...

"For the Deskpro EP, SB, and EN Series, Computer Setup/VP and Personal
Computer Diagnostics must be run from diskette."

Which would suggest for everything except Deskpro EP, SB & EN you can access
the Computer Setup/VP and Personal Computer Diagnostics via F10. Those
utilities are probably the key to setting the HD parameters. How did it lose
them in the first place BIOS battery is ok.