[LUNI] Compaq without a hard drive

[Robert Smith]

Hmm, I've had a few old EN6350's over the years, and they recognized hard drives ranging from the original 6 Giggers all the way to an 80 without a hitch. Other than the 6, the rest of the drives were aftermarket units, purchased at places like the COD show or Micro Center.
   
  The machines I played with were originally deployed out around the 1998 time frame, running Win NT4. Over the years, I loaded everything from Win98 through XP Pro (can you say SLOOOOW?), plus RedHat, Mandrake, SuSe, and Debian on them. They accepted it all, but with Linux, I seem to recall having a problem with the onboard soundcard on these machines.
   
  I hope that this information helps you out some.
   
  Rob Smith
  

James Velguth <Penguin at waxmoustache.com> wrote:
  Hi All
My Delema...
Environment:
I have acquired a Compaq Deskpro PII series 6333, without a hard 
drive. It will boot from the CD drive but I want to put a hard drive in 
it. It will recognize the hard drive if I plug it into where the CD 
drive it but I cannot configure the hard drive properly...

Problem:
When I hit F10 for setup the video scrunches itself into the top 
1/5th of the screen. The screen is totally unintelligible and I cannot 
change any settings.

What I have been told:
I have been told that this may be an early enough box that the cmos 
settings program may be on the hard drive instead of in the cmos but I 
have no hard drive. I have searched the Compaq website and cannot find 
any evidence to support this theory. The box is Deskpro series 6333.

Current Status:
I am kinda stuck at this point, I have no boat so right now this box 
is totally useless. I do want to put it to good use, slow maybe but 
good enough for poor folk to learn on.

I Would Like:
I need advice to get around the scrunched up setup screen.

Thanks in advance for any help.

James


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