Computer Help

Bizarre Moderator The artist formerly known as blue74l

12,785 posts · joined Aug 2002 · 22 Jul 2006, 12:14 pm

#514170

I have bought a Compaq lap top Evo N600c 2nd hand from a govt dept and they sell them without an operating system.

These have an external CD drive that plugs in from the back

I have XP Pro on a CD

I cant seem to boot from the CD
I go into set up and i have the choice of biit from
1) Multibay?
2) Hard disc

It has a floppy. Do I have to boot from this ???

thanks

Barry

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sinecure Want another... :(

1,031 posts · joined Mar 2006 · 22 Jul 2006, 2:51 pm

#514214

The Multibay in Compaqs is a hardware bay that can support extra drives (CD or HDD) or an extra battery.

You will probably have to boot from the floppy. Any post 98 boot disc should give you access to the CD drive (W98 boot floppy is best as it's a single disc).

A POSSE AD ESSE.

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sinecure Want another... :(

1,031 posts · joined Mar 2006 · 22 Jul 2006, 2:55 pm

#514216

BTW, Compaq are now supported by HP, here's a link to the downloadable manuals:

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/DocumentIndex.jsp?&lang=en&cc=au&contentType=SupportManual&docIndexId=179166&prodTypeId=321957&prodSeriesId=316673&lang=en&cc=au

A POSSE AD ESSE.

I live in my own little world, but it's okay, they know me here.

Bizarre Moderator The artist formerly known as blue74l

12,785 posts · joined Aug 2002 · 22 Jul 2006, 4:00 pm

#514238

OK.... sort of understand

I made a boot disc and got that to register but yeah.... i need to make a 98 Start Up disc or something.

Anyway....a mate is some how going to email me one and i will go from there.

Futue te ipsum!!!