I recently inherited a classic compaq 4402:
133mhz pentium
16mb ram (currently)
cd rom drive
floppy
1.6gb maxtor hdd
My issue is that the first time I turned the pc on I had bios issues due to a dead bios battery, not being able to access the bios settings, and not the pc not reading the hard drive
The motherboard had an external battery pin, so I replaced the bios battery and got rid of the no systems options error message.
Now I'm trying to get to the bios but nothing seems to work.
I have hit F1-F12, ESC, Del, Enter, etc.
When I have the floppy drive connected the only thing the computer wants to talk to is the floppy drive (cannot use cd drive because I have nothing to use with it, except a windows 95 disk).
I have run my grandfathers old window 95 bootdisk when the bootdisk boots up it says no fixed disks fixed disks found, then in the bootdisk menu i entered the setting that lets me view if any fixed disk are available. When I access it says no fixed disks are present.
Now I used the 1.6gb maxtor that came with the PC.
According to the HDD the only option is master and there are no jumper pins,
Then I use a 2gb maxtor HDD I had sitting around, that had jumper pins that I placed to master mode to receive same result.
I had a 20GB Western Digital HDD that refused to even spin up
Then lastly I used a 40GB Western Digital HDD to still have no success regarding the PC seeing the HDD>
Does anyone know anything about this old pc?
133mhz pentium
16mb ram (currently)
cd rom drive
floppy
1.6gb maxtor hdd
My issue is that the first time I turned the pc on I had bios issues due to a dead bios battery, not being able to access the bios settings, and not the pc not reading the hard drive
The motherboard had an external battery pin, so I replaced the bios battery and got rid of the no systems options error message.
Now I'm trying to get to the bios but nothing seems to work.
I have hit F1-F12, ESC, Del, Enter, etc.
When I have the floppy drive connected the only thing the computer wants to talk to is the floppy drive (cannot use cd drive because I have nothing to use with it, except a windows 95 disk).
I have run my grandfathers old window 95 bootdisk when the bootdisk boots up it says no fixed disks fixed disks found, then in the bootdisk menu i entered the setting that lets me view if any fixed disk are available. When I access it says no fixed disks are present.
Now I used the 1.6gb maxtor that came with the PC.
According to the HDD the only option is master and there are no jumper pins,
Then I use a 2gb maxtor HDD I had sitting around, that had jumper pins that I placed to master mode to receive same result.
I had a 20GB Western Digital HDD that refused to even spin up
Then lastly I used a 40GB Western Digital HDD to still have no success regarding the PC seeing the HDD>
Does anyone know anything about this old pc?