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KraM · 04-15-2002, 07:45 PM

I picked up this old HP Vectra from a computer fair a few days ago:
http://www.support.vectra.hp.com/vec.../Driver26.html

I also bought an 80GB HDD to put in it (hehe, what's the chance that will work huh?). I had a big problem putting the drive in because there were no 3.5" bays. So out comes the drill, and I attached a bay thingy from an old pc.

I booted it up and the BIOS said it was 8GB, o well. I chucked Red Hat 7.1 on it. Surprise surprise, Linux sees it as a full 80gig drive

But that's not the problem (I thought I'd share that though

), here is:
The motherboard has a separate card (daughterboard???) that plugs into it, which has all the PCI and ISA slots. I've tried a few network cards in there (including this useless token ring card that came with it). Linux doesn't see any of these cards. I also tried an SB16, no luck

I've looked through the BIOS (PhoenixBIOS) for stuff to change. All IRQ's are enabled for ISA, and I tried all the PCI slots with and without bus mastering on. I can't see anything else to try in there.

I could try putting Win2k or 98 on there (I need to run Linux on it though), does anyone think that will help? I could also flash the BIOS?

Any ideas?

04-15-2002, 07:45 PM	#1 (permalink)
KraM Registered User Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: australia Posts: 444	See today's most popular deals at » PCI and ISA won't work with old HP Vectra I picked up this old HP Vectra from a computer fair a few days ago: http://www.support.vectra.hp.com/vec.../Driver26.html I also bought an 80GB HDD to put in it (hehe, what's the chance that will work huh?). I had a big problem putting the drive in because there were no 3.5" bays. So out comes the drill, and I attached a bay thingy from an old pc. I booted it up and the BIOS said it was 8GB, o well. I chucked Red Hat 7.1 on it. Surprise surprise, Linux sees it as a full 80gig drive But that's not the problem (I thought I'd share that though ), here is: The motherboard has a separate card (daughterboard???) that plugs into it, which has all the PCI and ISA slots. I've tried a few network cards in there (including this useless token ring card that came with it). Linux doesn't see any of these cards. I also tried an SB16, no luck I've looked through the BIOS (PhoenixBIOS) for stuff to change. All IRQ's are enabled for ISA, and I tried all the PCI slots with and without bus mastering on. I can't see anything else to try in there. I could try putting Win2k or 98 on there (I need to run Linux on it though), does anyone think that will help? I could also flash the BIOS? Any ideas?