1. Download the following SoftPaqs to a directory on your hard drive. The files downloaded are self-extracting executables with a filename based on the SoftPaq Number.
SP9962 - Computer Setup for Portables v. 2.01 J (24 Jan 99)
hxxp://h18007.www1.hp.com/support/files/notebooks/us/download/8089.html DEAD
SP12906 - Personal Computer Diagnostics v. 10.39 A (10 Mar 00)
hxxp://h18000.www1.hp.com/support/files/notebooks/us/download/7106.html DEAD
Important: Do *not* download the newer version 10.40A. For older machines it must be 10.39A <!!!>
2. Create two directories (folders), one for each of the SPs and store the downloads there.
Execute the downloaded files and follow the on-screen instructions.
a) The SP for the Setup will create a diskette directly.
b) The SP for Diagnostics will creat a new subdirectory (Pdiag) and unpack the files to there.
To create the diskette, go to this new subdir, run MAKEDISK.bat and follow the on-screen instructions.
Caveat: We received quite a number of reports that problems occured when the Diagnostics diskette was created on a computer running under Windows 2000 (diskette not booting properly)
I therefore recommend to cretae the diskette on a computer running on any other OS.
The problem does not occur when using the newer version
"Personal Computer Diagnostics version 10.40 A (7 Dec 00)"
SP16085
hxxp://h18000.www1.hp.com/support/files/desktops/us/download/9260.html DEAD
This one does run only on newer models, explictely the 7xxx series.
3. After the diskettes have been created, you may delete the self-extracting files downloaded in step one, as well as the directory folders and files created in step two.
Having created the diskettes you may run Diagnostics and Setup by booting from the diskette.