Compaq Deskpro EN 6266 & 1790

Nick Le Lievre wrote...

Nick Le Lievre wrote...

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.


Oh dear! Last post should read as below but I pasted the contents of my
clipboard accidentally.

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.

Thanks for all your help lol

I still hate Compaqs downloaded Computer Setup/VP & Personal Diagnostics and
there is still no option to set HD parameters! My worst fears... so I've asked
a friend to bring round a selection of old hard drives 2gb - 10gb to see if it
will autodetect one of these correctly.