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re: can't enter bios
Saturday, November 9, 2002 at 3:52 am
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Posted by darrryl (1 messages posted)

Jamie, Some Compaq's actually have a partition on the hard drive for the BIOS. If someone used FDISK to remove the partition, then you won't be able to get into the BIOS without either re-creating the partition or by booting from a floppy with the setup utility on it. One of Compaq's disks will re-create the partition, but of course, will blow away all the data on your hard drive. I had to download two programs from Compaq: 1) PC Diagnotics 2) Setup for Portables I got them from the Drivers section of Compaq's site. This was one of the files, it is for an Armada 1750, so it probably won't work if you have a different machine, but will give you an idea of what to look for: www.compaq.com/support/files/armada/us/download/8093.html Good luck!

On Wednesday, October 24, 2001 at 7:28 am, jameschprice wrote:
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>how to get into bios on compaq computer. tried esc, then f10 but nothing happens.
>

Written in response to:: can't enter bios (jameschprice: Wednesday, October 24, 2001 at 7:28 am)

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