re: can't enter bios
Monday, December 1, 2008 at 2:16 pm
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Posted by jombo
(1 messages posted)
ok i know this is an old post. i bought an old armada 7770dmt months back at a yard
sale and was unable to access bios as i changed the hard drive. and it had only a
cd with no floppy. i was searchin high and low for help. this thread amused me. the
original question was never answered lol.
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well here is the answer or at least my answer and this worked for me. 1st the web
site for the drivers and bios etc is dead links now. so there is no help there getting
setup program or bios updater. you can get the rompaq to update bios here:
ftp://compaq.com/ftp1/pub/softpaq/sp11001-11500/
the file you want for the 7770 is sp11375.exe
you can get the bios setup utiliy here:
ftp://compaq.com/ftp2/pub/softpaq/sp9501-10000/
the file for my 7770 is sp9962.exe
the same procedure worked for me to access bios and also to make the updater cd.
the procedure below will burn a bootable cd that emulates A drive. so when the box
boots it thinks its on A drive not a cd.
1: create boot floppy from the floppy creator. i was in xp
2: run winimage and read the floppy into winimage
3: save it as .ima
4: exit winimage
5: rename the .ima to .bin cdrwin wants it .bin
6: start cdrwin and use backup and file copy util in cdrwin
7: click on advanced at bottom and then create boot image tab
8: browse to .iso you made in winimage
9: you will have to add some files in cdrwin to burn the boot image. just anything
i used the archive files
10: when its done stick the cd in the laptop and boot from the cd. if laptop is
off ya will have to boot it into whatever system its running then reboot with cd
in. it didnt pick up cd for me trying to get cd in from cold boot.
11: thats it ya can setup bios features and update your bios from your cds.
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both bios setup cd and the bios updater will autorun when they boot. nothing to it.
and for the bios updater there is a readme.txt in the ftp directory also might want
to snatch that also whilst your ftping. let me add a WARNING here if you have dead
battery and power goes off whilst your doing the bios update say goodbye to the laptop
lol. but it only takes about 2 mins for it to complete. my battery is good. or you
could plug the power supply into a computer UPS to feel safer. the bios update fixes
some really crappy things like y2k stuff and win2k wouldnt install till i did update.
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now if you destroy your old wornout laptop doing the above im not to blame. both
procedures worked great for me with my 7770dmt.
and by the way it runs win2k fairly well with a 10gig drive and 144meg ram. not a
smoker but its ok for browsing in the front yard with a wireless card. sorry for
the long post but just trying to help the lost that are searching for clues lol.
have fun.
On Saturday, October 4, 2008 at 10:54 am, Ed wrote:
>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
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