Hi JP,
If you figure it out , let me know. I have a Compaq Deskpro 66M
that I would like to install a CDrom in. I found very little while
searching the web. There is some drive setup in the configuration
menus, you might have to enable drive 2 in the config. menu.
Hit F10 when the flashing block appears in the right corner of the
screen during boot up. When you select configure, it will try to
configure the eisa set up and when it finishes you get a choice
to save and exit or inspect and edit. Choose the later, mine alway
disables com1 for some reason so check the settings. As you go down
the list, you'll find the drive area. The config may detect the
cdrom for you or maybe you can find a choice for drive two that
will work. One of the choices is a custom config. Like I said
I haven't tried it, and I don't know if the Compaq will support
a cdrom as a slave on the hdd controller.
If you don't have the configuration files on the system partition,
you can get them from the Compaq web site.
Let me know how you make out, I don't have a spare cdrom drive to play
with, and don't want to buy one if it won't work.
Mike
>My turn to ask for help (-;
>My daughter bought a Compaq, seems to have a 60MHz 486DX in it,
>was obviously used on a network (ethernet card still in, lots
>of netware), running DOS6.20 and WIN3.1. She has an external
>modem, and has started to use JUNO. So far, so good, but
>she has decided to install WIN95 (sigh..... can't teach kids
>anything these days). To do that, she needed a CDROM, so
>she seems to have picked up a 24X generic from COMPUSA, along
>with the cable to extend it.
>She tried to install it herself, and the computer quit, so she
>brought it over. I took the CDROM back off, cleaned up her
>autoexec.bat and config.sys some (network card calls and all that
>which she no longer needs, and a call to win), and then tried
>again to install it. Started with the CDROM set as slave,
>and cable in the right direction (red line to pin 1), ran the
>install disk and restarted. The machine stalls for awhile in
>bootup, then announces that it cannot find the CDROM. If I try to
>switch the shorting pin to "master", the machine won't boot at all.
>There appears to be no pins on the hard drive (a 525Meg type 46 I
>believe) to reset it to slave, and I couldn't see any shorting pins
>to set on the motherboard. Of course, it was late and my eyes are
>getting old.....
>Tried several simpler settings in the config.sys, made sure that
>MSCDEX was in the path and existed, tried running it separately
>from autoexec.bat - no luck. It was getting late, and I have to
>up it early for work, so I gave up for the night. Anyone
>have any experience with Compaq 486's? Might the trouble be that
>the 24X is too fast? I guess I could try my 2X from my
>Pentium 166..........
>Thanks, jp
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