SOFTPAQ NUMBER: SP12245 PART NUMBER: 140245-001 FILE NAME: N/A TITLE: Contura 420/430 ROMPaq Upgrade (September 23, 1999 Version) VERSION: 4K2.99.09.23 LANGUAGE: US English CATEGORY: Operating System Enhancements DIVISIONS: Portables PRODUCTS AFFECTED: Compaq Contura 420 Compaq Contura 430 OPERATING SYSTEM: IBM OS/2 Microsoft Windows 3.x and MS-DOS Microsoft Windows 95 Microsoft Windows 98 Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 3.5 Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 4.0 Microsoft Windows 2000 SYSTEM CONFIGURATION: N/A PREREQUISITES: N/A EFFECTIVE DATE: November 19, 1999 ELECTRONIC DISTRIBUTION ALLOWED: Yes SOFTPAQ UTILITY VERSION: 4.0 SUPERSEDES: SP5991 (12/23/97 ROM) DESCRIPTION: Creates the ROMPaq Firmware Upgrade Diskette for the Compaq Contura 420/430, which allows a user to upgrade to the 09/23/99 System ROM. Enhancements/Fixes: -Addresses intermittent failures reported when running the NSTL YMark2000 Y2K Compliance test. NSTL and Compaq determined that the failures reported were attributable to the test methodology and do not reflect any Y2K compliance issue. However, to alleviate some customers' concerns, the BIOS was modified to remove the cause of the intermittency. This version includes the following enhancements that were also implemented in previous ROM version (12/23/97): - Year 2000 Compliance Ensures that the Year and Century values in the System Date are updated properly through the year 2079 (NSTL Y2K Compliance). - Fixes a problem in the POST initialization that caused the Year value of the System Date to "jump" up to a century away from the actual date. HOW TO USE: 1. Obtain a formatted 1.44-MB diskette. 2. Download the SoftPaq to a directory on your hard drive and change to that directory. The file that is downloaded is an executable with a filename based on the SoftPaq Number above. 3. From that drive and directory, execute the downloaded file and follow the on-screen instructions. You will be prompted to insert the formatted diskette in a drive to create the diskette. 4. After the diskette has been created, you may delete the SoftPaq file downloaded in step 2. 5. Power down the computer. 6. Place the newly created Compaq Contura 420/430 ROMpaq Diskette in Drive A: and power up the computer. Follow the instructions on the screen to upgrade the System ROM. Copyright 1999, Compaq Computer Corporation. All rights reserved. Product names mentioned herein may be trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective companies