Robuck
Experienced Member
Hello,
I don't know if I am posting this in the correct place, but my problem may have something to do with hardware? Anyway, here we go. I recently purchased a "refurbished" Compaq Portable II from a seller on eBay. The seller is good, and has a 100% rating, so I don't think I am being scammed here. The original hard drive of the machine does not work, and the seller listed that, which is completely fine because he installed a compact flash card to replace it. The photos on the listing show it completely fine, and booted in to some version of MS-DOS. The problem I have, is that I can't get it to boot no matter what I do. I put the system disk he included in the package in the floppy drive, then turn the switch on. The only thing that happens after that is RAM detection, then the cursor just blinks in the top left corner forever. If I remove the CF card, the hard drive light turns off and it gives me a non boot disk error. After that, it still does nothing after I try different combinations of putting in the CF card, floppy disk, and restarting the computer. I'm sorry to ask such a noob question, but I'm at a loss here. Any info would help.
Thank you,
Mark Robuck
I don't know if I am posting this in the correct place, but my problem may have something to do with hardware? Anyway, here we go. I recently purchased a "refurbished" Compaq Portable II from a seller on eBay. The seller is good, and has a 100% rating, so I don't think I am being scammed here. The original hard drive of the machine does not work, and the seller listed that, which is completely fine because he installed a compact flash card to replace it. The photos on the listing show it completely fine, and booted in to some version of MS-DOS. The problem I have, is that I can't get it to boot no matter what I do. I put the system disk he included in the package in the floppy drive, then turn the switch on. The only thing that happens after that is RAM detection, then the cursor just blinks in the top left corner forever. If I remove the CF card, the hard drive light turns off and it gives me a non boot disk error. After that, it still does nothing after I try different combinations of putting in the CF card, floppy disk, and restarting the computer. I'm sorry to ask such a noob question, but I'm at a loss here. Any info would help.
Thank you,
Mark Robuck