Detailed info on computers? Does a site exist?

[Jayce]

I'm not talking about processor speed or any of that basic stuff, I'm trying to track down what's different in this scenario.

So the library has older computers, Compaq Evo D51s.

I have a spare computer at my desk, a Compaq Evo D5s. They looked identical and I made an image and cloned it using FOG. But the D51s just continues to reboot itself, failing to boot to the hard drive after imaging.

I copied an image from a D51s to a D5s, and the same thing occurs. There's definitely some sort of a hardware difference here. I'm trying to track down where exactly it could be, just for my own learning purposes.

Anybody have any idea?

 

[carnageX]

Obvious answer: have you checked HP's website for the specs? Or just done a general google search to see what the configs are?

 

[Jayce]

Yeah, I have. The only thing I can find are the OS options it came with along with hard drive size options and processor speed options.

I can't find anything to say it uses this chipset, that motherboard, this processor, etc.

I'm just trying to figure out why the D51s and D5s act differently. But one thing I did figure out (I think) was this.

All I can find on Compaq's web site is the D500 and D510. I found a naming convention site regarding it and the S stands for Small Form Factor, which they are. I think in my case they simply just dropped the zeros. Meaning:

D5s = D500 Small Form Factor
D51s = D510 Small Form Factor

So I think that's where the difference is in these systems. Of course I can't find out the D500 and D510 are different besides that little tid bit right there...

 

[Hefemeister]

cpuz will tell you about the motherboard and ram.

Everest home should be ok due to the age of the computer.
|MG| EVEREST Free Edition 2.20

I am pretty sure it will not run if you are connected to a domain.

 

[Jayce]

I noticed something that kind of made sense. Anybody who images computers knows that if you drop the hard drive in another computer of a very different model, it'll bluescreen on you.

Example - I clone an HP dc5000 and put that hard drive in a Dell Optiplex 755. Well, changes are Windows will crap its pants and bluescreen on me.

I was confused over why the D5s didn't bluescreen when I had the D51s image on it. It would simply reboot with nothing on the screen.

Well, I guess the CRT it was hooked up to was just too darn slow. I had a D5s hooked up to my work bench where I have a Dell LCD monitor to test computers with. For a split second before it reboots, it shows a bluescreen, then it reboots that instant. I guess the CRT that it was originally hooked up to didn't have a quick enough response time to display the blue screen, whereas the LCD did for a split second. So that at least takes away some confusion I had. I expected a blue screen hangup like that to STAY instead of rebooting after half a second, but whatever.

 

[KSoD]

By default a BSOD will auto restart. You have to change that option within Windows to stop it from exhibiting that behavior for it not to restart.

More than likely it is a Driver issue for like a network card or video controller. Maybe even the chipset.

 

[Jayce]

Well, at least that clears things up! For future reference I'll grab a D510 (D51s) and make an image of it to keep on file, so that way I have one of each model handy.

Gahh.