On Fri, 12 Mar 2004 20:40:11 -0600, Chuck Cole <cncole at earthlink.net> wrote: > The "bios" is in ROM on the motherboard. There are flash updates for some compaqs kept the bios on a disk partition not a ROM. You must go to the compaq site, download a rom paq or some such beast, set up the computer diagnostics, and install the bios - it probably got wiped when someone wiped the HD. > some of the models... I think I updated my 7800 from a > floppy. Setting the bios to boot from floppy or CDROM isn't hard and > the rest of setting a boot sector goes from there. > > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org >> [mailto:tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org]On Behalf Of Jason Sievert >> Sent: Friday, March 12, 2004 7:49 PM >> To: TCLUG Mailing List >> Subject: Re: [TCLUG] one million dollars >> >> >> It looks like you just create a boot disk from their web site. What is >> the full model number? >> >> On Fri, 2004-03-12 at 19:23, PHPTOm wrote: >> > If anyone can steer me in the right direction as yo how to get a bios >> on a >> > clean compaq armada laptop, I will give you a million dollars. >> > >> > TOm >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -- Using M2, Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/ _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list