Armada 1750 won't boot!

St8ic · 31-October-05, 08:01 PM

...or rather it does boot, just into "diagnostic mode". This is a partition on the hard drive used for testing the hardware. The tests run fine and without incident, but for some reason it won't boot off the windows partition! I want to get into the bios and set it to boot off a CD and delete the diagnostic partition that way, but I'm not sure if the compaq bios will detect this as a no-no and yell at me.

Really old laptop, but if I fix it, it's mine! PII 400, 64MB of ram, Rage Pro LT graphics...mmm...reminds me of the good old days of Quake II benchies...maybe I'll set it up as a portable linux rig?

Your help is greatly appreciated guys!

St8ic · 31-October-05, 10:58 PM

Solved --

Did a base linux install on another laptop and transferred the hard drive over to the old compaq!

Works great, thanks anyways.

31-October-05, 08:01 PM		#1 (permalink)
St8ic Apex Master Tech Apprentice	Armada 1750 won't boot! ...or rather it does boot, just into "diagnostic mode". This is a partition on the hard drive used for testing the hardware. The tests run fine and without incident, but for some reason it won't boot off the windows partition! I want to get into the bios and set it to boot off a CD and delete the diagnostic partition that way, but I'm not sure if the compaq bios will detect this as a no-no and yell at me. Really old laptop, but if I fix it, it's mine! PII 400, 64MB of ram, Rage Pro LT graphics...mmm...reminds me of the good old days of Quake II benchies...maybe I'll set it up as a portable linux rig? Your help is greatly appreciated guys!

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31-October-05, 10:58 PM		#2 (permalink)
St8ic Apex Master Tech Apprentice	Solved -- Did a base linux install on another laptop and transferred the hard drive over to the old compaq! Works great, thanks anyways.