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Re: Compaq Deskpro 4000

Posted on 2021-04-20, 15:33

Ok, so it snowballed fast in the good direction. I tinkered some more with the IDE cables and , lo and behold, after switching the HDD from secondary IDE to primary IDE, now everything works perfectly fine. Win 98 boots ( it was already installed on the hdd i bought), Dos works, even Prince of …

Re: Compaq Deskpro 4000

Posted on 2021-04-20, 11:46

Ok, so I could not wait any longer and tried again with some more info i gathered in the last months. - From what i found you DO NOT need the diagnostic setup/F10/Romflash whatever is called to install stuff on the PC. That is just an optional program that lets you diagnose components and tweak some …

Re: Compaq Deskpro 4000

Posted on 2021-04-19, 21:19

Awesome machine. I used to own one back in the day, together with a Cyrix 166 mhz pc, and I could never decide which one was faster and more suited for gaming. I thought the Deskpro with it's 133 MHz Pentium CPU, because Intel is better. I was still a kid. I even swapped over the 3DFX Voodoo card …

Re: Compaq Deskpro 4000

Posted on 2020-10-17, 14:13

So, I made some progress, but i did not fix the problem. I tried creating a bootable Floppy like Debs told me, and the floppy boots and the install starts. But i understood how this shit works, when you run the "Driver".EXE, it only unzips and install the true driver (ROMPAQ) to another Floppy. So, …

Re: Compaq Deskpro 4000

Posted on 2020-10-15, 17:57

That's actually a really good guide. I know a lot of the old Compaq softpaq's don't like Windows x64 and this has no chance booting off USB, but if you have a XP PC with a disk drive you should be on the right track again. Unfortunately i only have a Win 7. The Floppy has the option to "Create an …

Re: Compaq Deskpro 4000

Posted on 2020-10-11, 18:48

Hello, @Waterbeesje : At the moment i only want to install MS Dos, no need for Windows. So, i made some progress. I was able to create 3 working floppy disk with MS-Dos Version 6 using winimage. The PC sees the bootable floppy at start but it says "Unable to install MS DOS. This might be because of …

Re: Compaq Deskpro 4000

Posted on 2020-10-09, 19:21

Hello again, So, next day and another 40 bucks spent ( as with old cars, you need money to buy it, and more money to make the darn think to work properly) i bought a 1 GB IDE Hard Drive, bunch on floppies, RAM sticks and 1 USB Floppy Disk. The hard had Win 98 installed and the first thing that i …

Compaq Deskpro 4000

Posted on 2020-10-08, 22:43

Hello, After asking some questions in this post : https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=76961 ..... ....... I bought my first "Retro PC". I remember the old days when i had a 386 and i played GP2, Duke Nukem and Another World. So my objective with this PC will be creating a DOS Machine that …

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