On Tue, 10 Jun 2003, Fred N. van Kempen wrote:
> On 10 Jun 2003, Ernest Simpson wrote:
> > On Mon, 2003-06-09 at 12:09, tim wrote:
> >
> > > I have a Slt 286 that powers up fine and was working fine. it has
> > > lotus, and word on it and when i turned it on today it says insert
> > > setup disk into a: and there is no way for me to get around it. i
> > > can't get to c:, please help
> >
> > Sounds like your hard drive might be dead.
>
> Actually, sounds more like it lost its NVRAM config. The SLT stuff
> *should* be still available from the Compaq site, it was just after the
> HP merger.
The setup disks should still still be on the Compaq ftp site
[
ftp://ftp.compaq.com/] in the softpaq directory, but they may not be
linked from the Compaq/HP website anymore.
Of course, you'll first have to replace/repair the Dallas NVRAM module,
otherwise the setup disk won't do much good.
-Toth
Received on Tue Jun 10 2003 - 14:46:00 BST