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| Thread ID: 62474 | 2005-10-08 21:34:00 | Old mobo bios question | Myth (110) | Press F1 |
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| 394630 | 2005-10-08 21:34:00 | I scored an old motherboard from the place I do work experience with an AMD K6 cpu. Both boot up ok... its just that on post, the mobo gives a 1782? (faulty drive controller) error. OK most would say terminal, but I know the floppy drive works, and I know the CD-R works fine, and I am assuming my harddrive will work fine (also discovered I have 3 sticks of faulty PC-100,133 RAM so couldn't install an OS, plus at one stage, the harddrive and the CD-R were sharing the same IDE cable; besides this, the other harddrive is known good). The computer I am hoping will be a file server, so there will only be an O/S sufficient enuff just to run the other drive. The other drive will store files (already backed up). Should this error cause too many issues? Tried flashing Bios but that gave me a 'you need a rom bios' message. This legacy hardware new territory for me so I'm not too sure how to procede Incidentally, the mobo is a crappy camaro housing a (an approx) 500Mhz K6 and came out of an old Compaq (sorry, can't remember model) BTW, the reason I am trying with a crappy old hardware for my file server is that right now, money is an issue (but I want to build it to improve/increase linux, networking, and legacy hardware skills) |
Myth (110) | ||
| 394631 | 2005-10-09 00:18:00 | Both boot up ok... its just that on post, the mobo gives a 1782? (faulty drive controller) error. I know the floppy drive works, and I know the CD-R works fine Then ignore it. Just have the HDD and CD together off whichever IDE slot works. Presumably one of them doesn't? It doesn't matter. Well, not for just playing around with anyway. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 394632 | 2005-10-09 01:00:00 | That error message has been part of Compaq's POST ever since Compaq reverse engineered IBM's PC-AT BIOS, over 20 years ago. It's listed in the IBM POST error list. Flashing the BIOS won't remove the error. ;) They won't have changed the POST code. If the error message apperas, there is a hardware problem. But it might be just a cable ... I think the other message you got would have referred to a "ROM-Paq" whic is how Compaq distribute their BIOS and diagnostic software, not to a "rom bios". You will find that one of the disks has a hidden partition (type 12) which is what you are using when you hit F10 (or F12) during the boot. The ROM Paq runs to make three (or so) floppies which you boot from to make a new mainenance partition, or update the present one. (Have a look at the Compaq site for the Paqs. There should be an option in the one you've got to make a set of floppies from it, before you repartition the disk. |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 394633 | 2005-10-09 03:38:00 | That error message has been part of Compaq's POST ever since Compaq reverse engineered IBM's PC-AT BIOS, over 20 years ago. It's listed in the IBM POST error list. Flashing the BIOS won't remove the error. ;) They won't have changed the POST code. If the error message apperas, there is a hardware problem. But it might be just a cable ... I think the other message you got would have referred to a "ROM-Paq" whic is how Compaq distribute their BIOS and diagnostic software, not to a "rom bios". You will find that one of the disks has a hidden partition (type 12) which is what you are using when you hit F10 (or F12) during the boot. The ROM Paq runs to make three (or so) floppies which you boot from to make a new mainenance partition, or update the present one. (Have a look at the Compaq site for the Paqs. There should be an option in the one you've got to make a set of floppies from it, before you repartition the disk.OK that would explain the next question, why the extraordinarily slow bootup. I wasn't able to score the harddrive as well, so am using a different harddrive. Then again, if the old one hasnt been written over (I don't have it, but may be able to get access to it). If I can't get access to it, what are the chances of me finding a rom-paq? |
Myth (110) | ||
| 394634 | 2005-10-10 01:13:00 | It helps to know the model number to find the RomPaq, It's a long time since I needed one ... but I have an idea that the number I used was 5133, or something like that. The "5" means Pentium, and the "133" was the speed. I think. ;) I had an advantage, the number was on a sticker on the side of the box. Try "rompaq download" (www.google.co.nz/search?hl=en&q=rompaq+download&meta=) to Google and explore a bit. (Or a lot ... try adding the model name, but remember that Compaq made many, many, models called "Deskpro", starting with a 12 MHz 286 processor.) | Graham L (2) | ||
| 394635 | 2005-10-10 08:01:00 | Thanks for that, was able to find a rompaq for the mobo (incidentally it was a Presario 7453) Still had issues after I ran that, but after a bit of annoyance, and checking over all basics, a jumper I had noticed earlier was in the wrong position (instead of being in the | position, it was like -- ). I figured this was correct because the harddrive had been checked on another machine to see if it worked, and had booted no problem. So after scanning Maxtors site, I was able to find out where it should be, and corrected the problem. Damn those Presario's are pedantic. We live and we learn I suppose. Anyway, tonight it has both harddrives on it, running Win98, and works like a dream (though the psu fan needs lubing - noisy). Tomorrow, it gets Linux |
Myth (110) | ||
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