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First post, by dr.zeissler

Posted on 2015-01-31, 21:29

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Hi,

a few weeks ago I got a prolinea 4/100 Desktop. The built in battery is out of order. I only see the counting of the RAM, there is no bios available.
The computer beeps twice and boot either from a bootable floppy or from the new build in harddisk after I made it bootable.

I found out, that the Bios can be accessed with a system partition. first i have to create this special partition and that is the problem.
I don't know what I need to do this. I found a special "diagnostic-disk" which is able to create the 2MB system partition, but it also needs
a "setup" disk to do so. I hav not found this disk, all I found was a setup.exe that requires Windows running so what do I need to setup
this computer correctly?

After getting access to the Bios I have to find a away to change the Bios-Battery. I think that is not possible with the original built in,
but it is possible to connect a external one at a special connector.

Please help me getting this thing to work properly again 😀

Thx
Doc

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Reply 1 of 13, by Sutekh94

Posted on 2015-01-31, 23:13

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This could help: http://h20564.www2.hp.com/hpsc/swd/public/det … 503&swEnvOid=14

Fortunately, HP still has the original BIOS setup disks and other drivers for your system.

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Reply 2 of 13, by dr.zeissler

Posted on 2015-01-31, 23:54

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Thx!!!

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Reply 3 of 13, by dr.zeissler

Posted on 2015-02-03, 06:05

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This helped, now I managed to install the special Partition and I got access to the Bios.
Now I have to repeat the Battery. As far as I know, the original one is not changeable,
so I have to go for the separate Battery-Pack, but I have to search for a replacement
since the original one is properly not sold anymore.

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Reply 4 of 13, by Callahan

Posted on 2015-02-06, 17:31

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Check my replacement design for prolinea's 4100 built-in battery:

Cpq: ap550(2x1G/256k), sp750(2x900/2MB), 5100(2xpII300)
TD-30 2xP166 NT 3.51
HP Vectra XU 6/200 2x PIIOD 512MB FPM Banshee
Super S2DG2@550/2MB SCSI 15k V5 5500
P4T533-C P4 3,06 Ti4600
Dell T700r @P3-700 V3 3500
PR440FX-2x PIIOD Voodoo 4500 PCI r320 CT1920

Reply 5 of 13, by dr.zeissler

Posted on 2015-02-06, 18:58

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Thx!
What is the name of the battery-model?

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Reply 6 of 13, by Callahan

Posted on 2015-02-06, 19:06

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Standard CR2032!
Simple, cut original battery, soldered socket to cables and then soldered cables to mobo. Watch for polarity.

Reply 7 of 13, by 19rsn007

Posted on 2017-12-09, 09:33

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Sorry for digging up this old topic again but I have picked up this machine with a totally dead harddrive.
I am trying to replace the harddrive but the "bios setup" was delivered on a floppy with this thing and I don't have that floppy.
Does anyone here have a floppy image for the BIOS/SETUP disk ?

Reply 8 of 13, by jaZz_KCS

Posted on 2017-12-12, 12:02

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You probably need (amongst other things to get this fully running again...) the "F10 Setup and Personal Computer Diagnostics"

Here you go...

Attachments

Filename

sp4711.exe

File size

2.1 MiB

Downloads

153 downloads

File comment

F10 Setup and Personal Computer Diagnostics v1.23

File license

Fair use/fair dealing exception

Reply 9 of 13, by 19rsn007

Posted on 2017-12-12, 20:08

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jaZz_KCS wrote:
You probably need (amongst other things to get this fully running again...) the "F10 Setup and Personal Computer Diagnostics"

Here you go...

Thanks, this was what I was looking for 😀
I have the rest (windows installation, drivers and so forth 😀

Reply 10 of 13, by Styrbjorn

Posted on 2019-02-17, 23:06

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Do someone still have the drivers for ProLinea computers available ? Compaq seems to have remved them from their website 🙁

Reply 11 of 13, by blurks

Posted on 2019-02-17, 23:12

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No luck with archive.org?

Reply 12 of 13, by Styrbjorn

Posted on 2019-02-17, 23:32

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nope have not found them unfortunately.

Im also looking for technical manuals so I can upgrade my dx2/66 -> dx4/100 safely.

I *guess* there should be a jumper switch to set voltage from 5v to 3.3v.

Reply 13 of 13, by PC Hoarder Patrol

Posted on 2019-02-18, 01:16

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If you know, or can find the SoftPaq numbers thru archive.org, then you may find the files still reside on the HP ftp server at ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq.

is this manual any help? (mentions upgardes to DX4/100, 3.3 & 5V and changes to SW1 settings)

Filename: prolinea_family.pdf
File size: 1.12 MiB
Downloads: 226 downloads
File license: Fair use/fair dealing exception

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