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System Configuration Error (code purple) Windows Vista purehate July 24, 2010 Errors 51 Comments Tweet I am not sure how I have been lucky enough never to encounter the HP/Compaq booby trap but until today I was so fortunate. Apparently HP Tattoos a number in the bios
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of their motherboards so that when you try to use the factory recovery, it checks hp code purple lawsuit to make sure the stock motherboard is in place. If it is not in place you get the following error: Your system has
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detected a configuration error. Please report this error to Customer Care using the phone number found in the Warranty and Support Guide that came with your PC. Unless corrected, this error will prevent your PC from operating properly. http://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Desktop-Hardware-and-Upgrade-Questions/Your-system-has-detected-a-configuration-error-Code-purple/td-p/692441 Turn off your PC by pressing and holding the Power button. After a few seconds your PC will automatically turn off. (Code Purple) I mean seriously? HP does not want you to be able to change the motherboard in their PC's. I am guessing this is some idiots solutions to piracy somehow but in any case I will stop complaining and get to the solution. It took some searching but I finally found a solution to this https://www.question-defense.com/2010/07/24/hpcompaq-system-configuration-error-code-purple-windows-vista problem. There are a few ways to do this but basically there is a script in the recovery image of the operating system which checks the bios for the correct motherboard code. It is a pretty simple batch script which says if the numbers don't match return a exit status of 1 and give the code purple error and if it does match give a exit status of 0 and move on to the clean up phase. I will say that normally you would have to mount the drive on another computer or boot a rescue disk of some sort in order to do this but it turns out that HP was nice enough to give us access to a cmd.exe window even when receiving this error. 1. Once the error box comes up press shift and F-10 to get a command line. 2. Navigate to the following folder. bash C:\\hp\\bin\\checkdmi\\ 3. Enter the following command. bash checkdmi.cmd 4. The code looks like this: bash if ERRORLEVEL 1 goto mismatch goto cleanup REM ------------------------------------------------------------------ REM Found discrepancy in the DMI. Notify the user with the localize REM message via lg.ini, then shut down the system immediately. REM ------------------------------------------------------------------ :mismatch echo - Mismatched DMI - >c:\\hp\\support\\CodePurple.log echo DMI from Master UUT: >>c:\\hp\\support\\CodePurple.log type DMIinfo.ini >>c:\\hp\\support\\CodePurple.log echo ---------------------------------------------- >>c:\\hp\\support\\CodePurple.log echo DMI from This UUT: >>c:\\hp\\support\\CodePurple.log type DMIofUUT.ini >>c:\\hp\\support\\CodePurp
and let the recovery format and reinstall Windows Vista.Once it was complete I rebooted the computer to finish the installation. Instead of continuing, HP popped a nasty message:Your system has detected a configuration error. Please report this error to Customer Care using the phone number found in the Warranty http://computerhelp.planethernando.com/compaqhp-code-purple-error-solved/ and Support Guide that came with your PC. Unless corrected, this error will prevent your PC from https://www.technibble.com/forums/threads/hp-compaq-system-recovery-gets-configuration-error-with-code-purple.19459/ operating properly. Turn off your PC by pressing and holding the Power button. After a few seconds your PC will automatically turn off. (Code Purple)If you call HP they will tell you to buy a new recovery disk and chase your tail for a few weeks. All of this can be easily fixed. There are a couple of ways to go about fixing the HP Code Purple error. code purple Using the Linux Live CD or you will need to pulling the hard drive.The Linux Live CD Code Purple Error FixThis is the easiest option, but you will need to know a little bit about Linux. If you fix your own computer then it would be well worth the efforts to give Linux a shot. Boot up of the CD or USB drive. Once you have your computer booted up from the CD or USB mount COMPAQ or HP drive.The pull the hard drive configuration error code Code Purple Error FixThis will require a second fully functional computer (I'll call it comp2) that you can add a second drive. Install the HP drive in the second hard drive position in to comp2. Boot up comp2 and you should see your HP drive as a spare drive.The Compaq/HP Code Purple FixOnce you can see your HP drive, navigate to the HP folder \hp\bin\CHECKdmi\ then edit the checkdmi.cmd file. You will want to use notepad or gedit/vi/emacs DO NOT use Word or Wordpad. The first thing you will see a lot of REM statements at the top (REM stands for remarks or comments that are by passed when the script is run). Just below the REM statements are copy and paste or type (no typos..) this line goto cleanupSave the file and reboot or re install the drive to the HP/Compaq. This line will cause the script to bypass all the checks and force the script clean up the CHECKdmi folder which will allow your computer to finish the installation of Windows.If you want to try the Linux fix I use Fedora as the live CD. You can check out my quick how to boot Linux tutorial.Categories: Code Purple Error, Compaq, HP, Linux, Windows 7, Windows VistaTags: Code Purple Error Solved, Compaq Code Purple, HP Code purple5 thoughts on “Compaq/HP Code Purple Error Solved” J says: December 31, 2014 at 5:17 amWhere do you type the "goto cleanup"?Reply zippyjr says: May 15, 2015 at 4:10 pmREM ------------------------------------------- REM Purpose: REM Authe
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