WC>Nope, BIOS punks out at 32 Gig and the USB is 1.1.
WC>I tried everywhere to find a BIOS upgrade.
WC>They have them for their Vectra server class machines but not those
WC>home marketed.

NO BIOS upgrade can give you USB-2 Capabilities with the onboard USB-1
Chip Set as far as I know.


WC>I'd prefer the H.P.
WC>Micron PCI100 168 pin Dimms will work in it even if their web site
WC>claims otherwise ( PCI66), assuming of course that's the sort of memory
WC>that H.P. uses.

You were lucky then as I have found HP's to be VERY picky about memory
Chips.

WC>I have heard tell of Compaqs without the proprietary partition
WC>but I've not played with such a one.

It is quite easy to get rid of. Of course if you do then you have to
use the Downloadable Floppy Set for BIOS Setup and some Comp[aq system
maintenance routines.
I personnaly dumped the Maintenance partition myslef ewhen I passed out
a Compaq machine.

WC>The H.P. is likely to have the proprietary SFX power supply as well,
WC>Compaq too.

Teh minature HP power suply is a prolbem but mostly becasue ot it's very
borderline capacity. That of course is whay they made it difficuly ot
Upgrade. YOU should NOT load them up very much as the power supply is
really too small.
The Compaq power supplys I have dealy with Looked standard ATX size. But
since I had a couple from machines I parted out I never tried to use a
"standard" ATX.

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