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Microsoft MS-DOS 6.22 on the HP Pavilion zt1135


ppgrainbow

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USB Mouse Driver for DOS? Kind of doubt it. You're lucky to be able to access the USB Ports at all.

 

I'm lucky that I can only do this through USBASPI.SYS and DI1000DD.SYS as the BIOS has limited USB capabilities outside Windows. As for other USB devices such as a USB keyboard or USB mouse, I'm not so lucky since the BIOS doesn't support legacy USB keyboard and mice devices and the BIOS options are very limited. :(

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Haven't tried this, but one might wonder of a PS2->USB adapter would work?

 

I have one but I purchased it to work on a guy's failed PC (USB3 failure) so it was useless in that respect (duh!). I suspected that someone idiotically got into the BIOS and completely disabled the Controllers and there was no way to reset the BIOS (totally jumperless rather newish HP Win7x64 Home Premium). Mind you, I tricked up a USB install (separate drive) via a separate USB3 PCI-e Add-In (it booted to it as the BIOS was set to go to it) and loaded the Add-In Driver and could access the original HDD to save several DVD's worth of pictures, etc. Didn't bother with the Adapter for that.

 

They're cheap so it's worth a try (if you wish). Google this.

ps2-to-usb

HTH

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Haven't tried this, but one might wonder of a PS2->USB adapter would work?

 

I have one but I purchased it to work on a guy's failed PC (USB3 failure) so it was useless in that respect (duh!). I suspected that someone idiotically got into the BIOS and completely disabled the Controllers and there was no way to reset the BIOS (totally jumperless rather newish HP Win7x64 Home Premium). Mind you, I tricked up a USB install (separate drive) via a separate USB3 PCI-e Add-In (it booted to it as the BIOS was set to go to it) and loaded the Add-In Driver and could access the original HDD to save several DVD's worth of pictures, etc. Didn't bother with the Adapter for that.

 

They're cheap so it's worth a try (if you wish). Google this.

ps2-to-usb

HTH

 

I've been thinking that a PS/2 to USB adapter could work. I can't guarantee that it will work on the zt1135, because the BIOS does not fully support USB.

 

If it doesn't work, then I could be clearly out of luck here. :(

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Seems they shipped with Windows XP (AFAICT. Not so sure that (even if no *USB Legacy* in BIOS) the OS wouldn't recognize it. Isn't that the point? :unsure:

 

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/product?cc=us&lc=en&product=81295

 

Your main problem is getting USB KB/Mouse to work in DOS. That's what (hopefully) an Adapter would do.

 

How about Fn Keys? Seems HP doesn't have an actual Manual available. Found this for External Monitor.

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c00213448&tmp_task=useCategory&cc=us&dlc=en&lc=en&product=81295

 

edit - FWIW - zt1000 Series.

http://www.hp.com/ctg/Manual/lpi05595.pdf

HTH

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Seems they shipped with Windows XP (AFAICT. Not so sure that (even if no *USB Legacy* in BIOS) the OS wouldn't recognize it. Isn't that the point? :unsure:

 

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/product?cc=us&lc=en&product=81295

 

Your main problem is getting USB KB/Mouse to work in DOS. That's what (hopefully) an Adapter would do.

 

How about Fn Keys? Seems HP doesn't have an actual Manual available. Found this for External Monitor.

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c00213448&tmp_task=useCategory&cc=us&dlc=en&lc=en&product=81295

 

edit - FWIW - zt1000 Series.

http://www.hp.com/ctg/Manual/lpi05595.pdf

HTH

 

That's what I've been thinking. The laptop totally lacks legacy USB support in the BIOS as well as floppy drive and PS/2 support. That doesn't make me too happy.

 

It just wouldn't even be fair to stuff only Windows XP (requires no less than 1.5 GB of free space) on a SSD since it's the only supported OS by HP.. Right now according to NSSI, 658 MB of the 7.44 GB of disk space has been used across all partitions on the 8 GB SSD so far.

 

I might have better luck with Windows NT 4 since it requires only 110 MB of disk space to install it. :)

 

Update: I wiped MS-DOS 7.1, installed Windows NT 4.0 on the 8 GB SSD, formatted the drives as a NTFS 4 partition and those attempts were not successful. I'm now stuck with the Windows NT 4.0 boot menu and any attempts to select either options (normal or VGA mode only) throws a STOP 0x78 INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE.

 

Attempting to wipe the partition and recreate the partition was no use at all. The SSD is dead after 19 days of use and it appears that the IDE controller or the motherboard could be failing also.

 

Sorry if this was a total waste of time getting the SSD working although it only worked well on a FAT32 partition under MS-DOS 7.1. :(

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Seems they shipped with Windows XP (AFAICT. Not so sure that (even if no *USB Legacy* in BIOS) the OS wouldn't recognize it. Isn't that the point? :unsure:

 

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/product?cc=us&lc=en&product=81295

 

Your main problem is getting USB KB/Mouse to work in DOS. That's what (hopefully) an Adapter would do.

 

How about Fn Keys? Seems HP doesn't have an actual Manual available. Found this for External Monitor.

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c00213448&tmp_task=useCategory&cc=us&dlc=en&lc=en&product=81295

 

edit - FWIW - zt1000 Series.

http://www.hp.com/ctg/Manual/lpi05595.pdf

HTH

 

That's what I've been thinking. The laptop totally lacks legacy USB support in the BIOS as well as floppy drive and PS/2 support. That doesn't make me too happy.

 

It just wouldn't even be fair to stuff only Windows XP (requires no less than 1.5 GB of free space) on a SSD since it's the only supported OS by HP.. Right now according to NSSI, 658 MB of the 7.44 GB of disk space has been used across all partitions on the 8 GB SSD so far.

 

I might have better luck with Windows NT 4 since it requires only 110 MB of disk space to install it. :)

 

Update: I wiped MS-DOS 7.1, installed Windows NT 4.0 on the 8 GB SSD, formatted the drives as a NTFS 4 partition and those attempts were not successful. I'm now stuck with the Windows NT 4.0 boot menu and any attempts to select either options (normal or VGA mode only) throws a STOP 0x78 INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE.

 

Attempting to wipe the partition and recreate the partition was no use at all. The SSD is dead after 19 days of use and it appears that the IDE controller or the motherboard could be failing also.

 

Sorry if this was a total waste of time getting the SSD working although it only worked well on a FAT32 partition under MS-DOS 7.1. :(

 

 

As I am not the type to give up on things, you may find this thread interesting:

 

http://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=1145854

 

Also, I would highly recommended creating an NT 4.0 CD with SP6 slipstreamed- this may prevent the INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE

 

You can get the SP's on my FTP here: http://sdfox7.com/winntsp.htm

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