Compaq diagnostic disks

John D. Reeve wrote: This machine works like the old AT's did with Cmos batteries. when the batteries lost the disk setup and time information, you had to boot them The portable 3 has a much larger table of possible drives. If you have a standard model, it may have a drive type or 3 or 20, if memory serves. you can still get the disks from the softpaq library on ftp.compaq.com/pub these entries in the pub/allfiles.txt are your best bets, depending on whether you have 5 1/4" drives, or 3 1/2" drives (360k or 720k). also the setup utility took two diskettes SP0316.ZIP ftp://ftp.compaq.com/pub/softpaq/sp0000-0500/sp0316.zip 457K 20 May 92 TITLE: COMPAQ DIAGNOSTICS 8.00 REV. B SOFTPAQ SP0316 052092 360K DISKETTE VERSION: N/A LANGUAGE: N/A PRODUCTS AFFECTED: N/A OS: N/A SUPERSEDES: N/A SP0308.ZIP ftp://ftp.compaq.com/pub/softpaq/sp0000-0500/sp0308.zip 443K 23 April 92 TITLE: SOFTPAQ DIAGNOSTICS 8.00 REV. B (DP256) 042192 SP0308 720K DISKETTE VERSION: N/A LANGUAGE: N/A PRODUCTS AFFECTED: N/A OS: N/A SUPERSEDES: N/A