re: can't enter bios
Saturday, October 4, 2008 at 10:54 am
Windows Me Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Ed
(742 messages posted)
You can't. Pressing the F10 key during startup on a Compaq computer only accesses
the Compaq diagnostics tools, which are on a special diagnostic partition of the
disk. It's nothing to do with the BIOS.
In order to access the BIOS screen during startup on a Compaq PC you should instead
press the key which Compaq has designated for that purpose. Unhelpfully, this varies
from model to model. So consult your PC's instruction manual for details.
If you have lost the manual, it is back to trial and error. Try one of these keys:
DEL, F1, F5, F8, F11, F12 (and on some models you also have to hold down the CTRL
or ALT key simultaneously). If those don't do the trick, try the other F keys (one
at a time).
I must say, I'm surprised. The Compaq Presario that I had in the old days displayed
a message on-screen during POST:
Press F2 to enter Setup
Ed
On Friday, September 19, 2008 at 10:31 am, dragan wrote:
>As many others I have a problem entering BIOS or I'm just dumb.
>I need to change the boot-order and tries to hit the f10, doing so gives me access
>to compaqs diagnostic tool "compaq utilities" or something like that. But how do
>I move from here to change boot-order?
>Compaq Armada 1750
>
>
>//Jocke
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- re: can't enter bios (dragan: Friday, September 19, 2008 at 10:31 am)
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