On Sunday 18 September 2005 15:24, Walter Dnes wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 18, 2005 at 09:15:48AM +0000, Michael Kintzios wrote
>
> > Compaq tend to 'compaqify' their boxes by plastering their company
> > logo into every splash screen you can imagine, including these days
> > their BIOS screen. I am not sure how their boxen were configured
> > a few years ago but these days everything can be 'disinfected' and
> > returned to default component settings. I am not what you mean by
> > BIOS partition. I don't know if they would save a BIOS image to
> > reflash the BIOS with their corporate splash screen and preferred
> > settings in case the CMOS battery ran out or was removed by the user.
> > On the other hand, they may just saved the splash screen on the hdd
> > because back then there would be much less storage space for silly
> > splash screens on the BIOS itself?
>
> No, it was for screen settings and BIOS parameters. If you have a
> really old Compaq, go to their download webpage and get the floppy image
> for your model. You have to boot from the floppy, and save to the
> hidden partition, creating it if necessary. It occupied the first
> cylinder, and definitely did not have enough space to store the OS.
They did this even before the eisa days. Putting the bios settings on the
hard drive was supposed to protect them in case the battery died backing the
bios. Guess back then they didn't have flash memory. This is no longer the
case for the desktop compaq machines....not sure about the servers.
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