A Blast from the Past

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I was preparing my very first laptop, Compaq Presario 14XL244, to restore Windows 98SE back to the laptop’s original OS for some fun. I have forgotten about laptop hard drives stored with it. I do not remember the last time I played with this laptop.

Haiku-A2 (rev 36759)

The first contained two installations of different Haiku A2 revisions. Sadly, I rediiscovered why these were abandoned–no sound, no USB–hence no floppy drive, and no method to interchange data.

The second drive contained another Haiku (Walter (Rev 42696)) with Windows XP:

Walter (Rev 42696)
Walter (Rev 42696)800×600 69.4 KB

This installation had the same issues as well.

What I found very interesting, since I have long forgotten about it, was the CPU Frequency app where I could adjust the CPU for overclocking that came R1/A2.

Who knows…I may try installing R1/B5 on this just for kicks…

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I remember having some success with Alpha 2 or 3 on my old 700 MHz Celeron which might be like 1 generation newer than your CPU if I had to guess. It also had working USB 1 on Haiku iirc

Curious to know how Beta 5 would run on it, please let us know in case you do.

One thing that’s puzzling me though… how come the copyright is 2024? Both versions should be more than 10 years old by now :thinking:

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With only 312 MB of RAM, better to try a recent nightly (as they have some bug fixes, allowing them to boot on systems with less RAM than with beta5).

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The copyright section took some time to appear–a couple full seconds. I imagine after I updated BIOS settings since the battery was dead. I imagine there is some calculation to generate the copyright statement.

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Good suggestion…I will try that.

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What’s the memory modules configuration for such an exotic RAM amount? Or is it actually 256+64 MB, and Haiku doesn’t detect 8 MB for some reason?

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8MB reserved for onboard graphics possibly?

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Indeed

Compaq Presario 14XL244 Notebook PC with 320 RAM, yes 8 of that
goes to the video.

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I have booted Beta5 on a computer with 256MB of RAM, but nightlies might perform better with lower RAM usage.

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Yes, 64Mb are soldered onto motherboard and upgraded with 256Mb PC100 SDRAM SODIMM.

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Yes, dedicated to the AGP 2x - Trident Blade 3D graphics processor.

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Well…I tried to install the latest Haiku nightly, last night’s revision to be exact. It hung up on the yellow, third boot up icon and stayed there. So, Haiku latest will not load. Too bad…it would have interesting to see devices would have been assigned and useable. Oh well…next time!