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Article #17031.44 floppy with old COMPAQ BIOS - how?
From: George N. Yaremchuk
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 23:14
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 23:14
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I have a COMPAQ 386/25 with a 1988 era BIOS. It has a 1.44 floppy installed which ran fine. Then I changed the battery for the CMOS, which destroyed the CMOS contents. I then ran the COMPAQ Setup program ver 6.2 to let it know the C: drive exists, etc. However, setup auto- detects the 1.44 as a 1.2 MB floppy, and won't let me manually change it. The only response I get from the dealers is 'spend a$110 or so on a new BIOS. Probably a good idea, but it's not my machine. I'd prefer to do what was done previously, to fool the BIOS into thinking there is a 1.44 floppy (as was presumably was done before). Any help, pointers, or setup software would be greatly appreciated. GNY PS. The machine owner is out of the country for a few months, so I'm out of luck getting info from him. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- George N. Yaremchuk Email : gny@doe.carleton.ca Dept. of Electronics, Carleton Univ., Tel : 613-788-2600 x8980 Ottawa, Canada. K1S 5B6
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!yale.edu!qt.cs.utexas.edu!cs.utexas.edu!torn!cunews!gny From: gny@doe.carleton.ca (George N. Yaremchuk) Subject: 1.44 floppy with old COMPAQ BIOS - how? Message-ID: <gny.716166869@pulaski> Sender: news@cunews.carleton.ca (News Administrator) Organization: Dept. of Electronics, Carleton University Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 23:14:29 GMT Lines: 21