Pavilion N3290
| Make | HP |
| Model | Pavilion N3290 |
| Release Year | 2000 |
| CPU | 500MHz Intel Pentium III |
| Memory | 64MB |
| GPU | Silicon Motion LynxEM (SM710) |
| Storage | 6GB ATA HDD |
| OS | SuSE Linux 8.2 |
I acquired this laptop at the same time as I acquired my Compaq Armada 1750, and it also had an issue with a relatively simple fix that kept it from booting - in this case I simply needed to remove the battery.
I had initially installed UnixWare 7.1.1 on this machine, as I was wanting to try out what SCO had to offer in the way of Unix products and, while it worked well, I did struggle to get any form of communication set up with it. Then I installed OpenServer 6 to see what that offered me, however I have decided to save SCO products for hardware that's more standard, as there are many points where unsupported hardware can be present, especially on this computer (and laptops in general), which has no onboard networking hardware save a modem (that is likely to be a WinModem).
As of now, it has SuSE Linux 8.2 installed and it works wonderfully.