Few day ago I bought this Compaq home PC 5bw 160 W98se without the restore CD's, this Rig was a mess,
spyware,viruses, trojans and lot's of OS files missing, after a few hours of trying to fix things,
I decided to do a win 2000 clean install. (I've several unused boxed copy of W2k and Wxp)
I went to compaq web site (now HP) and easily downloaded the sound, video, and modern drivers for W98, W2k and Wxp,after reading everything about it, I thought this is a piece of cake ! Wrong.
First it wouldn't boot to the W2k CD, I got I\O ERROR,
of course I did the bios setting for first boot to CD
so I tried to do a Wxp the same thing,
OK now back to the bios and change back to first floppy,then CD. Now I try the 4 floppy for W2k I still get the I\O error report at the first diskette, (the floppy drive has been tested on a different Rig and it's working well)
and the same for the Wxp floppy's since I've already zeroed and fdisked the drive I found myself in a sort of jam so I decided to install (reluctantly) W98se "cause w98 boot floppy works" the installation went flawlessly, the sound and video was another nightmare, but at the end I was able to install them all.
This Rig is no longer a bloated Compaq thing now it's a fairly nice piece of usable 700 mhz 20 gb trash.
I've done this with lot's of HP, IBM, Toshiba's, and others 5 years old PC and laptops, I've never had a problem with w2k and PX floppy's reporting I\O ERROR and not booting from Boo CD's.
In the back of my mind I still would like to install a more dependable OS, the likes of W2k or PX. Do any of you understand or know of the why of this odd and real strange behavior! Beside the fact that it's a Compaq, with a HP MB and BIOS, and highly proprietary.....
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spyware,viruses, trojans and lot's of OS files missing, after a few hours of trying to fix things,
I decided to do a win 2000 clean install. (I've several unused boxed copy of W2k and Wxp)
I went to compaq web site (now HP) and easily downloaded the sound, video, and modern drivers for W98, W2k and Wxp,after reading everything about it, I thought this is a piece of cake ! Wrong.
First it wouldn't boot to the W2k CD, I got I\O ERROR,
of course I did the bios setting for first boot to CD
so I tried to do a Wxp the same thing,
OK now back to the bios and change back to first floppy,then CD. Now I try the 4 floppy for W2k I still get the I\O error report at the first diskette, (the floppy drive has been tested on a different Rig and it's working well)
and the same for the Wxp floppy's since I've already zeroed and fdisked the drive I found myself in a sort of jam so I decided to install (reluctantly) W98se "cause w98 boot floppy works" the installation went flawlessly, the sound and video was another nightmare, but at the end I was able to install them all.
This Rig is no longer a bloated Compaq thing now it's a fairly nice piece of usable 700 mhz 20 gb trash.
I've done this with lot's of HP, IBM, Toshiba's, and others 5 years old PC and laptops, I've never had a problem with w2k and PX floppy's reporting I\O ERROR and not booting from Boo CD's.
In the back of my mind I still would like to install a more dependable OS, the likes of W2k or PX. Do any of you understand or know of the why of this odd and real strange behavior! Beside the fact that it's a Compaq, with a HP MB and BIOS, and highly proprietary.....
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