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@Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2003 21:35:17 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Re: Compaq trash, what's the problem?
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Probably a dumb question, but how is the battery on
the motherboard (if there is one?) Could that have
anything to do with this?

Franklin

--- Davey Brain  wrote:
> Kris Steenhaut wrote thusly:
> > 
> > Davey Brain schreef:
> > 
> > 
> >>So now I'm sitting here with 2 Compaq computers,
> both of which seem to 
> >>have a problem with the keyboard.  The Presario
> will boot and even go 
> >>into Win98 but no KB.  The Deskpro won't even boot
> now.
> >>
> > 
> > You do know the bios-tools are on the HD in a
> hidden partition (Compaq 
> > standard procedure), don't you? So if you've wiped
> out that partiton 
> > too, chanches to get the 'puters working again are
> close to nil.
> > 
> > 
> 
> That may be true for some Compaqs but not all, at
> least not the Deskpro 
> I have.  It came to me with no hard drive.  I
> successfully started it 
> and entered the BIOS setup and also booted and ran a
> floppy-based diag 
> program with no hard drive installed.  So it must
> have a real BIOS of 
> some sort.
> 
> The Presario I don't know.  I leveled the hard drive
> with Eurosoft 
> Troubleshooter to rid it of XP as even after a
> reformat it wouldn't 
> allow me to do anything but restore XP.  It worked
> fine for almost 2 
> months with Win98SE installed on the clean drive.
> 
> In both instances the loss of keyboard function was
> sudden.  On the 
> Presario it happened while I was investigating an
> odd problem of a 
> conflict between the motherboard chipset drivers and
> the standard 101 
> key keyboard driver in Win98SE.  I have never seen
> any conflict with the 
> chipset drivers.  It may be a real conflict as the
> keyboard has totally 
> quit working now.  But how to change the resources
> the motherboard uses? 
>   Or the resources the keyboard uses?  They aren't
> on plug-in cards.
> 
> On the Deskpro the only indication of a problem was
> the sudden 
> spontaneous reboots.  DOS worked fine.  Only the GUI
> had a problem. 
> This indicates to me that either there is a sudden
> severe conflict, a 
> video problem or a problem with the memory above 1M.
>  I have not 
> installed any special drivers for the NVidia Vanta
> LT AGP card, it was 
> running on standard VGA (remember my SVGA rant?). 
> It had just installed 
> a driver for the monitor.  I previously had an HP
> monitor installed and 
> switched to a Supra (OK, idea forming here).  PnP
> installed the drivers 
> for it.  It also tried to install drivers for the
> network card every 
> time I went into Winblows but didn't have the driver
> so I always cancelled.
> 
> Hmmm...conflict with the monitor?  That and memory
> was the only thing 
> that changed.  Doesn't change anything though,
> without a KB both systems 
> are unusable anyway.  After some sleep I'll tear out
> everything except 
> for the base system stuff on the Deskpro, put the HP
> monitor back on and 
> give it a whirl.  May not work but with Compaq crap
> you never know what 
> works.
> -- 
> Davey Brain
> dsbrain{at}NOSPAM!neosplice.com or
> dsbrain2001{at}yahoo.NOSPAM!com
> 
> "Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy
> of growth" - John F. 
> Kennedy
> 
> Gigabyte 7VKML AMD Athlon 1700XP+ Savage 4 AGP 4X
> 32M
> This eCS-OS/2 system uptime is 0 days 05 hrs 37 mins
> and 52 secs
> 
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