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On Sunday 18 September 2005 15:24, Walter Dnes wrote: |
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> On Sun, Sep 18, 2005 at 09:15:48AM +0000, Michael Kintzios wrote |
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> > Compaq tend to 'compaqify' their boxes by plastering their company |
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> > logo into every splash screen you can imagine, including these days |
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> > their BIOS screen. I am not sure how their boxen were configured |
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> > a few years ago but these days everything can be 'disinfected' and |
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> > returned to default component settings. I am not what you mean by |
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> > BIOS partition. I don't know if they would save a BIOS image to |
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> > reflash the BIOS with their corporate splash screen and preferred |
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> > settings in case the CMOS battery ran out or was removed by the user. |
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> > On the other hand, they may just saved the splash screen on the hdd |
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> > because back then there would be much less storage space for silly |
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> > splash screens on the BIOS itself? |
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> No, it was for screen settings and BIOS parameters. If you have a |
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> really old Compaq, go to their download webpage and get the floppy image |
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> for your model. You have to boot from the floppy, and save to the |
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> hidden partition, creating it if necessary. It occupied the first |
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> cylinder, and definitely did not have enough space to store the OS. |
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They did this even before the eisa days. Putting the bios settings on the |
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hard drive was supposed to protect them in case the battery died backing the |
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bios. Guess back then they didn't have flash memory. This is no longer the |
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case for the desktop compaq machines....not sure about the servers. |
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