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Hard Time With Installing ANY OS

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lilstewart92

Junior Member
Hi-

I'm brand new to AnandTech and I really need some help. I have this 1999 laptop that was given to me for free, a Compaq Armada 6500. I really want to fix this up.

Here's my difficulty. It had a corrupt win98 install, so I fdisk'd it and formatted the HD (6GB). Since then, I can't get it to boot from a CD or a floppy. The CD drive does work as I upgraded it to Win98 yesterday before I formatted. The thing doesn't have drivers for a CD drive and I put them on a floppy and I can't get it to get into a DOS mode to put them on the HD; pressing F8 won't work. It has the Phoenix BIOS 4.0 Release 6.0.R; System BIO Revision = 1.54.

Can SOMEONE help me?

🙁

EDIT: The machine has a 300MHz PII processor with 64MB RAM.
 
Yeah seems like the boot order in the BIOS isn't set correctly. You could even try hitting F11 when it starts to boot up, on some BIOS's that brings up a screen where you can choose to boot a device from. But yeah, check your boot order in the BIOS.
 
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