I would like to add a little to this.  This looks like an oooohhhhhh so
familiar Compaq message.  It could be the hard drive itself.  On several
Compaq's I have worked on in the past, a hard drive with a damaged MBR or
simply a hard drive that went bad would start coming up with this error.
This is not as likely a possibility as the ones Eric suggested, and I would
say look to those issues first, but this is something to consider down the
road if nothing else seems to be working.

Kyle


>From: Eric Maquiling <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] 1782 Disk Control Failure
>Date: Wed, 8 Sep 1999 21:04:34 -0700
>
>On Tue, Sep 07, 1999 at 10:23:52AM +0100, J & M Home Computer Services
>wrote:
> > A friend received the following error message while working with Windows
>95,1782 Disk Control Failure, and asked if I knew what it meant. Well I
>don't. Can anyone help with this?
>
>This could mean a couple of things:
>
>1.  THere really is something wrong with the disk controller (ide
>connection, ribbon cable, etc)
>or
>2.  The computer was recently moved and the connection is loose.
>
>I would open it up, check to see if any of the ribbon cables are loos
>between the HD and the motherboard.  Then reboot.  If you get the same
>message, then I would suspect a bad controller.  If it is a bad
>controller, you should be able to go to the bios, disable the controller,
>buy antoher one that fits onto an ISA slot and move the ribbon cable to
>that

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