Posted by DAN on December 21, 19100 at 07:14:33:
In Reply to: Quantum Bigfoot TX12.OAT posted by Vivian Johsens on December 06, 19100 at 14:46:54:
BELOW IS HOW TO GET IN SET UP ON MANY COMPUTERS,
OLD PACKARD BELL AND OLDER COMPAQ TAKE A FLOPPY,,
YOU CAN DO ANYTHING IN THERE,,[JUST CHOOSE OPTION NOT TO SAVE WHEN EXITING]TO USE TURN ON COMPUTER
AND START TAPING ON CORRECT KEY,,IF YOU GET KEY BOARD ERROW OR WINDOWS STARTS UP TRY AGAIN
The following table is the key to get into the BIOS SETUP program when [you start up computer]
Compuer Brand Parallel port settings BIOS SETUP Key
IBM Aptiva 278H/ compatiblle or Bi-directional F1
378H/ ECP/ EPP 1.9 F1
Compaq 3BC-3BF, 7BC-7BE, IRQ 7, DMA 3 F10 OR UTILITY DISK
278-27F, 678-67A, IRQ 7, DMA3 F10 F10
SONY 278H/ IRQ 7, EPP F3 then F2 or F1
ACER 378H/ EPP Ctrl-Alt-Esc
Sharp Laptop 378H EPP F2
Toshiba Laptop 378H/ Bi-directional Toshiba Utility
Output Only
Packbell 378H/ ECP or BI-Directional F1 or F2
DELL 378/ EPP The port seting should on Enable, not on Auto F1 or DEL
Hewlett Packard 378H, IRQ 7/ EPP F1
Gateway 378H / EPP F1
NEC 378 H/ EPP F2
Other System 378H/ EPP F1 or Del
: I have an HP Pavillion 8290 purchased in June of 1998 without any
: decent documentation. (I did not know I should have gotten
: that kind of thing.)
: I'm in the process of educating myself about my computer, so I can
: either fix it myself when the time comes or so I will know what the
: paid expert is doing/should be doing if I have to turn over problems
: to someone else at that time. My system says my hard drive is a
: "QUANTUM Bigfoot TX12.OAT." When I input that info for a hard drive
: search, I come up with 2: Bigfoot 1275 and Bigfoot 2550. Is my hard
: drive either one of those? HP gives me NO information, and I haven't
: taken off the cover to look at this point.