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This paper is one of several by the second author et al. on the quadric completion problem of operator partial matrices. In previous works, the completion to (orthogonal) projections [\textit{J. Hou}, Linear algebra Appl. 246, 71-82 (1996; Zbl 0864.47018)], to square-zero contractions [\textit{M.-D. Choi}, \textit{J. Hou} and \textit{P. Rosenthal}, ibid. 256, 1-30 (1997; Zbl 0879.15022)] and to idempotents [\textit{J. Hou}, \textit{H. Radjavi} and \textit{P. Rosenthal}, Acta Math. Sin., Engl. Ser. 15, No. 3, 333-346 (1999; Zbl 0934.47004)] have been considered. In the present one, the authors consider, for a given quadric polynomial \(p(t)= t^2+ at+ b\), the completion of the partial matrix \(\left[\begin{smallmatrix} A & C\\ ? & ?\end{smallmatrix}\right]\) on Hilbert space \(H\oplus K\) to an operator \(T\) satisfying \(p(T)= 0\). This they solve completely: \(\left[\begin{smallmatrix} A & C\\ ? & ?\end{smallmatrix}\right]\) has such a completion if and only if \(\text{ran }p(A)\subseteq \text{ran }C\) and \(\text{ran }AC\subseteq \text{ran }C\), and all such completions can be given parametrically. Using a result of Davis, Kahan and Weinberger, they also solve the norm bounded quadric completion problem, namely, finding conditions on \(A\) and \(C\) in order that \(\left[\begin{smallmatrix} A & C\\ ? & ?\end{smallmatrix}\right]\) has a completion \(T\) satisfying \(p(T)= 0\) and \(\|T\|\leq u\) for some \(u\geq \max\{|\alpha|: p(\alpha)= 0\}\). In a forthcoming paper [Chin. J. Eng. Math. 18, 12-18 (2001)], the second part of this one, they consider the similar question for the partial matrix \(\left[\begin{smallmatrix} A & C\\ ? & B\end{smallmatrix}\right]\).