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From: William R. Walsh on 26 Apr 2010 11:38
Hi!

> Can you give me an example of a model number and year
> and what operating system?

As far as I know, Compaq never produced a system that *required* the
system partition to be in place. There was a set of bootable disks--
and I think you could even make them when booted from the system
partition--that would let you run system setup if you didn't have the
partion. Likewise, you could manage the partition from those
diskettes.

Perhaps it's possible that the system BIOS would become "annoyed" if
the partition wasn't removed in just the right way. I do know that I
ran a few systems without the partition and it always worked fine. (It
was a tremendous boon when dealing with users who could not leave
anything alone.)

Two such machines that I handled a lot of had this feature: The Compaq
Contura 410C and the Presario CDS526 both shipped with the setup
partition.

IBM took this idea a little further with what they called IML. This
was used in a few different models of the IBM PS/2 computers. In these
systems, there was just enough microcode present in a ROM on the
mainboard to let the system find its working BIOS from either a floppy
diskette or hard drive. In particular, the Models 56, 57, 76, 77 and
some configurations of the Model 90 and 95 used IML. I think it was
intended as an easier way to update the BIOS in these machines, the
working BIOS could be updated just by upgrading the system programs to
the latest release--a quick, easy and low risk thing to do. It was a
flashable BIOS before there really was such a thing.

The last of the PS/2s did use true flash BIOS technology with IBM's
SurePath. (There were only a very few machines to have that, however.)

William
From: bahrouz on 26 Apr 2010 15:26
do you use the same power outlet , try to use another one in another
room , check if there is a lamp or flurecent that keeps flickering in
the room that you use the computer in , if they fed from the same
power node with flickring flurecent the laptop will keep acting
crazy , its something i noticed ,it may help you determining what is
the real problem is , best wishes .
From: bahrouz on 26 Apr 2010 15:37
i noticed from sometime that when you connect a laptop to power outlet
that is fed from a node connected to a flickery flurecent lamp the
laptop will go crazy , so try to connect it to another power outlet in
another room , and see if it works hope thats help :-)
From: Mike De Petris on 26 Apr 2010 16:27
On Apr 26, 9:37 pm, bahrouz <bahrouz.el3a...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> i noticed from sometime that when you connect a laptop to power outlet
> that is fed from a node connected to a flickery flurecent lamp the
> laptop will go crazy , so try to connect it to another power outlet in
> another room , and see if it works hope thats help :-)

thank you, anyway I tryed in two different houses, so this is not the
case
From: William Sommerwerck on 26 Apr 2010 17:24
fluorescent, please.


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