Back in the day I inherited a Compaq laptop that had Windows 95 on it. I “upgraded” it to Windows 98, all was well for a year or so and then it started throwing BIOS errors. I couldn’t work it out so eventually I ended up having to contact Compaq support. I explained what was going on and they said it was because I installed 98 and that one’s only supposed to run 95.
I said I didn’t think that was it, because it ran 98 perfectly well for like a year before this happened and also it was a BIOS error, which presumably occurs before Windows even loads. They told me it was 98 and that machine was only meant to run 95. I tried a few more approaches and they just said the same thing over and over like a robot. Eventually I just gave up and was like never mind, I’ll work it out myself.
Turns out that on that laptop, the BIOS memory is stored on a watch battery like a fucking Nintendo Cartridge. New $1 battery, no more error. Also the last HP/Compaq thing I owned just because support was so shitty at me lol.
Back in the day I inherited a Compaq laptop that had Windows 95 on it. I “upgraded” it to Windows 98, all was well for a year or so and then it started throwing BIOS errors. I couldn’t work it out so eventually I ended up having to contact Compaq support. I explained what was going on and they said it was because I installed 98 and that one’s only supposed to run 95.
I said I didn’t think that was it, because it ran 98 perfectly well for like a year before this happened and also it was a BIOS error, which presumably occurs before Windows even loads. They told me it was 98 and that machine was only meant to run 95. I tried a few more approaches and they just said the same thing over and over like a robot. Eventually I just gave up and was like never mind, I’ll work it out myself.
Turns out that on that laptop, the BIOS memory is stored on a watch battery like a fucking Nintendo Cartridge. New $1 battery, no more error. Also the last HP/Compaq thing I owned just because support was so shitty at me lol.