20 Aug
2006
20 Aug
'06
6:04 p.m.
I just unpacked one that had been stored in a
reasonable warehouse
environment,
this week, and when I pulled off the keyboard, the insulation sheathing
totally disintegrated.
That's what this one did also, but there seems to be additional damage
to the wiring inside. I don't think this one was in a "reasonable warehouse
environment" ;)
This is pretty much an AT with a 30 or so entry HD
table, instead of
just the AT's 15 entry table in the disk extension.
As such, you need an AT setup disk to set the cmos if it is dead. It should
boot and run either the compaq one, or the standard AT one. If you dont
need > 15 in the drive type, the standard AT will work. A lot of these
had drive type 2, which IIRC is a 20mb.
I'm a Mac dweeb, so I have nothing of the sort. Where can I get an image for
it? Is this the right one?
http://members.driverguide.com/driver/detail.php?driverid=55994
I did try Compaq^WHP's site and while they had the P3 listed, the contents
were pretty much laughable. No setup disks either, let alone manuals.
Another thing that concerns me is that you need to say
whether you
see floppy activity, either constant (bad ps) or none at all after
you boot up. You should see a floppy seek if you have a floppy
installed, just like an ordinary AT would do.
Sorry, I wasn't clear enough -- there is no floppy spin. The light blinks with
the front bezel LEDs, but there is no motor activity or seek.
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