Armada 1750 - service partition not installable

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Hi,

since some weeks I own a Compaq Armada 1750 notebook. When I bought it, the
service partition of the hard disk was missing. So there is no BIOS access
for me in the moment. On the HP/Compaq website, I found a tool which
created a bootdisk to setup the service partition again but while booting
from the floppy disk, it stops with the error message
"An error occured while loading". First I assumed that the floppy drive was
defect, but trying to boot from CD with the same image caused the same
error. What else can I do? Probabely the Image is - although downloaded
from the HP/Compaq Server - broken. Does anyone have this tool (SP8975) and
could boot with it without problems?

Thank you all in advance,

Joachim

 

[David]

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Sounds like maybe a bad download? sp8975.exe should have a file size of
1441312 bytes. I've used it with no problems.

"Joachim Gnauk" <gnauk@mpie-duesseldorf.mpg.de> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> since some weeks I own a Compaq Armada 1750 notebook. When I bought it,
the
> service partition of the hard disk was missing. So there is no BIOS access
> for me in the moment. On the HP/Compaq website, I found a tool which
> created a bootdisk to setup the service partition again but while booting
> from the floppy disk, it stops with the error message
> "An error occured while loading". First I assumed that the floppy drive
was
> defect, but trying to boot from CD with the same image caused the same
> error. What else can I do? Probabely the Image is - although downloaded
> from the HP/Compaq Server - broken. Does anyone have this tool (SP8975)
and
> could boot with it without problems?
>
> Thank you all in advance,
>
> Joachim
>

 

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David wrote:
> Sounds like maybe a bad download? sp8975.exe should have a file size of
> 1441312 bytes. I've used it with no problems.

Thank you for your help. No, that's exactly the file size I've got. I hope
it's not the BIOS itself keeping me from the BIOS access. :-( BTW: the BIOS
Update (and also the restore) works fine, also the diagnosis floppy disk.

Joachim

 

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David (tonka@flashmail.com) wrote in
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> When you boot with the diskette does it load all the way to the
> run/install/exit screen? If not, I would try downloading the file again
> even though the one you have is the correct size. If the run option works
> but not the install option I would suspect an HD issue of some kind. Using
> the run option from the diskette is the same thing as using f10 when the
> setup partition is installed on the HD. You could also try clearing the
> CMOS using this method..

I downloaded the setup-tool again, but it is bit-identical with the one I
used. The setup terminates while (or directly after?) loading, so there is
no way to access the BIOS features. Perhaps clearing the CMOS could be a
way, but I am afraid, how I can restore the present state, if it won't
work?

Joachim
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David (tonka@flashmail.com) wrote in
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> Sounds like maybe a bad download? sp8975.exe should have a file size of
> 1441312 bytes. I've used it with no problems.

I solved the problem. The file was OK, but the floppy had a physical error,
which was not detected during format. The image on CD hat of course the
same error, because it was taken from the floppy.

Thank you very much for your help,

Jo
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[David]

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Great! Glad you got it working..

"Joachim Gnauk" <gnauk@mpie-duesseldorf.mpg.de> wrote in message
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> David (tonka@flashmail.com) wrote in
> <YtSlc.6947$Hs1.3073@newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net>:
>
> > Sounds like maybe a bad download? sp8975.exe should have a file size of
> > 1441312 bytes. I've used it with no problems.
>
> I solved the problem. The file was OK, but the floppy had a physical
error,
> which was not detected during format. The image on CD hat of course the
> same error, because it was taken from the floppy.
>
> Thank you very much for your help,
>
> Jo
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> To send Email, please use <gnauk(at)mpie(dot)de>