Re: 286 Laptop Bios Booting Question

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From: Eugene
Date: Thu, 08 Jul 1999 00:00

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I still have the CGA drivers for windows 3.1, I ran it on a 286 with a CGA
card from an XT.
Eugene

Paul wrote in message <7m2p8g$kte$1@zeitung.ngc.com>...
>A lot of older Compaqs used a setup program that came on a diagnostic
>floppy usually it was called setup.exe (original).  You might be able to
>find it
>somewhere on the net thru ftp ...
>
>Mangey wrote in message <3784dfde@news.powerup.com.au>...
>>     I have a 286 Laptop given to me for nix, it says it has a hard drive
>>error, dos installs on floppy is OK but I can't seem to get into any Bios
>>Options (to try hardformat the drive) using the usual delete key on
bootup.
>>It's a Compaq LTE.
>
>
>

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Subject: Re: 286 Laptop Bios Booting Question
Date: 1999/07/08
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