Laptops :: Compaq Armada 1571DM



Compaq Armada 1571DM
CD-ROM and Floppy Drive
32 Megs RAM
3.0 gb harddrive (2gb for windows 98se and 1 for DSL)
PCMCIA ports/USB ports/and general other ports

This is driving me crazy. So here is what is going on:

1. Spend like 4 hours using a bad write and thinking its the ram all along. It was the CD.

2. Write Image to CD-RW to only realize that the laptop has major trouble with RWs.

3. Finally write image to a standard CD at 12x. YES! It boots and all is well (resolution needs to be changed to 800x600 but otherwise its fine).

4. So now I go to do a hdd install to a second partition that is about 1000 megs. Everything "installs" and then it asks to reboot.

5. Reboot and it loads to the part of where it mounts the drives and boom it stops. I reboot and...

6. It goes to the same part apparently fixes it and then I reboot again because its says "*Reboot Linux*".

7. Now it loads to the part of where the passwords need to be added. I do that (some trouble since my laptop cuts of like the last couple of lines) and it boots.

8. It works and naturally the first thing I go to do is change the resolution to 800x600. Reboots and.

9. Repeat steps 5 through 7 minus the password change (its the user login command now).

Is it perhaps it is a cluster of bad sectors? I dont know if DSL automatticlly marks bad sectors (Windows does) and doesnt use them anymore.
I can run DSL on my Compaq Armada SB.  It's similar to a 1592xx.

Adding a 64MB SODIMM will made a great difference in performance.  Even a 32 MB upgrade would help your laptop

I think that the important thing is to use "nodma".  My guess
is it is because of the OPTI621X ide.

These are the boot time options that I use:

boot: dsl nodma noagp noapic acpi=off vga=789 screen=800x600 depth=32 syslog
Yes I am increasing the ram shortly to 96 megs of ram. But today I tried it out and all seems to be well! :D  :D. I think it had something to with the fact that it wouldnt install properly when rebooted. But after several reboots it seems to work great.

original here.