lh pro POST error message

[CA933125]

Howdy everyone,

I am getting two POST error messages, 1, "ESIA Configuration NVRam Bad", and 2, "Information about your computer's configuration has been corrupted". Any ideas?

Thank you very kindly, Dave LaPierre

[Chris Moran · Accepted solution]

Hi Dave

The first message here is the significant one. Sounds like the EISA config has gotten scrambled (it happens sometimes on old systems) perhaps by the NVRAM battery going dead on you.

If you have the EISA support tools (Don't know whether you can d/load them or not) it's normally a pretty simple matter of booting up off the configuration diskette and letting the tools detect your config and save your settings.

Hope this helps

[CA933125]

Thank you for your response Chris,

I downloaded an updated ECU and BIOS to a floppy and tried to boot from it, no luck. The only way it will boot is if the # 3 switch is off (down)and it doesn't seem to recogize the the A drive or C drive. I tried to clear CMOS, and I guess I really screwed things up. How would I go about making a boot disk?

Thank you once again, Dave LaPierre

[Chris Moran]

Hopefully you have an EISA partiion on the machine. If so, hit F12 during POST this should come up.

If not, I just looked into the ECU diskette, you *should* be able to boot off that (the executable is actually EISA_CF.HDS

Then, just choose "Configure Hardware"

In one case (but not on an HP box) I needed to disconnect the hard drives.

In another case, you can power off, set SWITCH 3 on the config dip switch to ON then power up. This will clear the config

Take a look at

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=tis11790&locale=en_US for the location

Hope this helps