All PC''s should be the same!!!damn it

Hi

Usually the reasons for CD-ROM not to work:
1- A virus.
2- Noide subkey in registry with a value of 1.
3- Motherboard driver are not installed or over written.
4- Problem with CD-ROM connection data and power cables or jumber setting of the CD-ROM or the master hard disk.
5- BAD CD-ROM.

checking:
1-Go to The Performance tab in system properties and check if your computer is using MS-DOS Compatibility mode.
2- -Go to device manager and check if your CD-ROM or the IDE
controler has a yellow "?".
3- You need a 3.5" floppy to create a bootable disk.and a antivirus software.
4- start->setting->control panel->add/remove programs->(TAB) stratup disk->create disk.
solution:
1- Check the hardware cabels,jumber setting...ectand a firm that red side of cable in pin one.
2-Reboot and check for a virus.
3-reboot and use the boot disk you created to check for DOS access of the CD-ROM.
4-Go to compaq site and download needed drivers.
5- check your registry for noide subkey and delete it.

read the MS article for more info.
Troubleshooting MS-DOS Compatibility Mode on Hard Disks
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q130/1/79.asp
"pls watch for spaces in the URL (nospaces pls)"

Good luck
Mohamed

WINTEL, aka Grove & Gates, would love to give you what you ask for -- although you might be sorry once you got it. The U.S. Supreme Court (yeah -- the same folks that didn't like IBM, AT&T, Al Gore ), which has history of never being consistant (unless you count paying attention to special interests), has decided that for now, it ain't gonna happen. [ Nothing like a bunch of former lawyers determing the course of technology, nad everything else!!! ] So, barring a very sudden surge in the economy, we won't be having a $100,000,000,000-aire for a while. I hope no one's ego suffers.

As far as the machine, unplug it and have someone watch it until the ghosts leave and then try again.

on one hand if you made all the computers the same , what fun would it be ? it would be boring , but by the same tolken i hate compaq PC's for that very reason , they have thier own idiotic boot up system with out the cdrom you are up the creek without a paddle i am affraid
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Nooooooooooooooooo! Then I'd be forced to buy new software and equipment for the software every 2 years!!!! Oh No The new agreement with MS says I have to! Nooooooooooooooooooo!

Wake me, please!

Back to business....

Backup what you can and then see if you can boot from floppy with a windows startup disk and see if the cdrom drive is there or not.... If you can see it - fdisk and reformat and start over with a clean install.

seems like you have little choice but to ask compaq nicely if they would send you the cd rom, which i dont think is going to happen realy, in that case id probaly bin it.. its not like computers are expensive anymore, especialy in the us (there 25% more expensive here!) go on treat yourself!
about makeing all computers the same, like that guy just said, compaq have there own start up... if they werent atempting to make a standard of there own then you wouldnt need a cd rom realy, you could get stuff else where! but if they were all the same every time you wanted an upgrade youd have to fork out for a new computer! (and so would everyone else!) thats why i have a playstation2 for games not a pc.
why not get a mac? much more relyable than pcs! (but too expensive over here for me)

seems like you have little choice but to ask compaq nicely if they would send you the cd rom, which i dont think is going to happen realy, in that case id probaly bin it.. its not like computers are expensive anymore, especialy in the us (there 25% more expensive here!) go on treat yourself!
about makeing all computers the same, like that guy just said, compaq have there own start up... if they werent atempting to make a standard of there own then you wouldnt need a cd rom realy, you could get stuff else where! but if they were all the same every time you wanted an upgrade youd have to fork out for a new computer! (and so would everyone else!) thats why i have a playstation2 for games not a pc.
why not get a mac? much more relyable than pcs! (but too expensive over here for me)

Hi if you need the drivers they are all on the compaq site even 486 machines also the diags software, but as others said try a windows start up disk and see if this finds your cdrom.

Rich

OK, here we go. First it depends on how new the COmpaq is, do you have a CD key for the operating system? You see, MS wont support Compaqs version of Windows because Compaq "OEMs" it, that means they change it, like all the little compaq icons andwhatever version of IE they install, look in the upper right hand corner, I bet it's not the MS symbol. If you have a key and a plain old windows disk, do a straight install like that. You may have to hunt down some drivers. You see, your anger is focused on the wrong people, Compaq and HP highly modify the operating system software and the hardware for that matter. Lets say you bought a Ford from a dealer who installed a chevy engine, should ford warranty that? Or, if you are so fed up with MS, use Linux, good luck with software, or buy a Mac.

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