Comments on: Booting Up, Then Opening Up https://retropaq.com/booting-up-opening-up/ Retro & Vintage Compaq Computers & Other Vintage Technology Thu, 08 Feb 2024 18:00:33 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Adrian Dörr https://retropaq.com/booting-up-opening-up/#comment-6612 Thu, 08 Feb 2024 18:00:33 +0000 https://retropaq.com/?p=139#comment-6612 Anybody know which of the tree pins on the cmos battery socket is Miami’s and plus. In my example the cable and battery is missing so I’ve got nonpayment to find out what is what and Google refuses to help.

]]> By: Retropaq https://retropaq.com/booting-up-opening-up/#comment-5286 Wed, 26 Oct 2022 13:24:08 +0000 https://retropaq.com/?p=139#comment-5286 In reply to Russ Campbell.

Hey Russ – I just used alkaline batteries in a holder to power the CMOS memory. With the battery depleted / removed, you can only enter the setup through a floppy disk. These are regularly sold on ebay. Hope that helps!

]]> By: Retropaq https://retropaq.com/booting-up-opening-up/#comment-5285 Wed, 26 Oct 2022 13:22:24 +0000 https://retropaq.com/?p=139#comment-5285 In reply to Edison.

Hi, consider yourself lucky! Time has not been kind to this particular model of Conner Hard Drive, I have only heard of a few still in working order – your best bet would be to use a CF card adapter and CF card with a drive overlay program (like OnTrack) for long term use. Other than that though, the Compaq Portable 386 is built like a tank!

]]> By: Russ Campbell https://retropaq.com/booting-up-opening-up/#comment-5216 Mon, 10 Oct 2022 00:58:56 +0000 https://retropaq.com/?p=139#comment-5216 I just got one of these compaq portable computers too, and I am about to restore it, the hard drive seems to spin up OK, but of course the battery has log time ago expired.

Can it be replaced with a modern lithium cell battery? I do have an install or setup disk.

Russ

]]> By: Edison https://retropaq.com/booting-up-opening-up/#comment-5019 Thu, 08 Sep 2022 02:23:53 +0000 https://retropaq.com/?p=139#comment-5019 Hi, I recently got my cp386 online and tried to install dos 6.22 on my portable 386, When I booted the machine using a startup disk, I could enter drive c just fine, but the computer just won’t boot from its internal hard drive (The drive clicks for a few times and the screen displays “disk error press any kay to restart”) I tried using the fdisk /MBR command, and after restarting, the computer still showed “disk error”. I am using a IDE disk on module with a capacity of 256 mbytes. Any ideas?

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