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Mumbato wrote:
Hello, all. I'm new to this group, and also to laptops. I have experience with building and repairing home PCs, however this is my first laptop. I purchased a used Compaq Armada 1750 at an auction, and it needed a HD and caddy. I obtained those online, however, when I installed the HD, and attempt to install an OS, the computer reports that it sees a "Non-System Disk". I have spent quite some time on the HP website, and from what I can gather, this laptop requires some sort of system partition on the HD in order for it to be set up, and so forth. Would someone have any experience with this model of Armada, and be willing to share some knowledge with me about how to obtain the required files, and how to install them to the HD, when the computer says it does not even recongize it? I have flashed the BIOS, but it seemed to not do anything regarding my problem. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks for your time. Chaser The setup/diags program isn't necessary to detect a hard drive, the bios will auto detect. The partition however is necessary if one wished to change the boot order and such which could be your problem, i.e. after the initial post scan of the cd and floppy drives do you see it attempt to read either for a bootable disk?. If not power the system off, then, with all three hands while powering on keep hitting fn-f11, you will see the screen turn on, hear the pop from the audio like normal, then see the screen flash and another audio pop a second time. This clears all the cmos settings which will default it to the boot order of cd,floppy then hard disk. |
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Problem With My Armada 1750 Setup Routine
Hello, all. I'm new to this group, and also to laptops. I have
experience with building and repairing home PCs, however this is my first laptop. I purchased a used Compaq Armada 1750 at an auction, and it needed a HD and caddy. I obtained those online, however, when I installed the HD, and attempt to install an OS, the computer reports that it sees a "Non-System Disk". I have spent quite some time on the HP website, and from what I can gather, this laptop requires some sort of system partition on the HD in order for it to be set up, and so forth. Would someone have any experience with this model of Armada, and be willing to share some knowledge with me about how to obtain the required files, and how to install them to the HD, when the computer says it does not even recongize it? I have flashed the BIOS, but it seemed to not do anything regarding my problem. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks for your time. Chaser |
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Mumbato wrote:
On Sat, 11 Sep 2004 13:00:50 +0000, Eugene wrote: The setup/diags program isn't necessary to detect a hard drive, the bios will auto detect. The partition however is necessary if one wished to change the boot order and such which could be your problem, i.e. after the initial post scan of the cd and floppy drives do you see it attempt to read either for a bootable disk?. If not power the system off, then, with all three hands while powering on keep hitting fn-f11, you will see the screen turn on, hear the pop from the audio like normal, then see the screen flash and another audio pop a second time. This clears all the cmos settings which will default it to the boot order of cd,floppy then hard disk. Most excellent advice, Eugene!! The Fn-F11 routine did the trick, and now WinXP is flying along just fine. That must be one of those un-documented things, because I sure did not read it on the Website or in the repair manual I got on CD. Anyways, Thank You Very MUCH !! :-) Chaser A few of those are documented. There was someone on here doing a FAQ and I tried to submit some of those things but he never used any of them and his FAQ seems to be pretty much Presario specific which doesn't have many of these additional features. Fn-ESC will display the bios version Fn-F11 clears CMOS (not the boot password though, there is an additional step for that) Fn-T does a screen stretch (fit a 640-480 screen to 800x600 or 1024x768) Those are the ones I still remember. |
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On Sat, 11 Sep 2004 13:00:50 +0000, Eugene
wrote: The setup/diags program isn't necessary to detect a hard drive, the bios will auto detect. The partition however is necessary if one wished to change the boot order and such which could be your problem, i.e. after the initial post scan of the cd and floppy drives do you see it attempt to read either for a bootable disk?. If not power the system off, then, with all three hands while powering on keep hitting fn-f11, you will see the screen turn on, hear the pop from the audio like normal, then see the screen flash and another audio pop a second time. This clears all the cmos settings which will default it to the boot order of cd,floppy then hard disk. Most excellent advice, Eugene!! The Fn-F11 routine did the trick, and now WinXP is flying along just fine. That must be one of those un-documented things, because I sure did not read it on the Website or in the repair manual I got on CD. Anyways, Thank You Very MUCH !! :-) Chaser |
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