At 02:14 PM 8/5/99 , Ed Dever wrote:
>A friend brought this to me to look at, as he wanted  to use this at his
>small (35 member) church for word processing, etc. When I booted up the
>computer up-it asked for a system disk. I inserted a win 95 OEM disk and got
>it to the A: prompt.
>I then used fdisk to find out how it was partioned and it was one partition
>for fat 16.
>
>I would like to load the Win 95 OEM cd-rom that I have in that system.
>Problem is I cant tell what type of cd-rom it has and cant find any specific
>info on the compaq web site for this, or any of the drivers for that matter.
>I also have no clue as how to access the Bios. I know that there is a generic
>  cd-rom driver on the nospin web site, but like I said its been so long since
>Ive done any of this, its like greek to me.

The file on the NOSPIN file download page you mentioned contains
instructions on using and installing the CD rom driver.   The
readme.txt file in the CDDRIVER.ZIP  file states:
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 From The NOSPIN Group: Universal CD Rom driver

installation: copy the driver inclosed to your boot floppy
disk.   Add the following lines to your Config.sys &
Autoexec.bat on the floppy:

Config.sys:

device=d011v200.sys /d:001

Autoexec.bat:

mscdex.exe /d:001

(*Note: be sure the mscdex.exe & d011v200.sys files are loaded on your
floppy disk)
=================================================

Now, to enter the CMOS settings on a Compaq:
   Press F10 when square in top RH corner of screen

This is taken from my Trouble Shooting Newsletter edition #4,
that can be read online at: http://nospin.com/pc/ts004.html

I hope this helps...


                 Bob Wright
        The NOSPIN Group, Inc
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