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re: can't enter bios Wednesday, October 24, 2001 at 10:09 am Posted by Spanky (9 messages posted) Try f2 or delete. I recommend rebooting and as soon as the machine has power, tap either of these keys continously until you get in. You may find that Compaqs boot past the spot where you can get into the bios quite fast and it may require a few attempts. On Wednesday, October 24, 2001 at 7:28 am, jameschprice wrote: > >how to get into bios on compaq computer. tried esc, then f10 but nothing happens. > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: can't enter bios Wednesday, October 24, 2001 at 5:24 pm Posted by Mike (1 messages posted) I have a Presario 1247, @ the start of your boot up, try holding down your key and pressing the f8 key simultaniuosly... Hope this helps !!! On Wednesday, October 24, 2001 at 7:28 am, jameschprice wrote: > >how to get into bios on compaq computer. tried esc, then f10 but nothing happens. > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: can't enter bios Monday, February 25, 2002 at 7:25 am Posted by KDivad Leahcim (15 messages posted) On mine, I think it is Ctrl+Shift+F10. Try each combination (including none) of Ctrl, Alt and Shift with Del, Esc, F10, F2 and BkSp. That covers all the systems I've worked with... [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: can't enter bios Saturday, November 9, 2002 at 3:52 am 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: > >how to get into bios on compaq computer. tried esc, then f10 but nothing happens. > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: can't enter bios Monday, December 2, 2002 at 10:51 am Posted by Sy_Ba_Rite (1 messages posted) Shut down the computer and wait 10 seconds. Turn your monitor on, then press F1 and turn on your computer, hold down F1 while the computer is powering up. Good Luck Sy On Wednesday, October 24, 2001 at 10:09 am, Debug Computers wrote: >Try f2 or delete. I recommend rebooting and as soon as the machine has power, tap >either of these keys continously until you get in. You may find that Compaqs boot >past the spot where you can get into the bios quite fast and it may require a few >attempts. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: can't enter bios Thursday, March 20, 2003 at 8:27 pm Posted by Student (13 messages posted) Man, I was reading some posted mensage and I came across your answer. It just fits right on to the problem that I was having with one of my junk computers. Thanks body. On Saturday, November 9, 2002 at 3:52 am, darrryl wrote: >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! > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: can't enter bios Monday, July 14, 2003 at 7:08 am Posted by Smaug (1 messages posted) Try Ctrl Alt S Smaug On Thursday, March 20, 2003 at 8:27 pm, Student wrote: > Man, I was reading some posted mensage and I came across your answer. It just >fits right on to the problem that I was having with one of my junk computers. Thanks >body. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: can't enter bios Monday, August 25, 2003 at 12:17 am Posted by Kei (1 messages posted) Hello, i am having this same exact prob with a comp from work that was givin to me to mess around with. It has win xp pro loaded on it right now... I have downloaded the pc diagnostic and setup for portables. but when i put the disk in the comp and boot it, after the compaq logo flashes on screen, there is nothing, and nothing happens with the disk. am i missing a step somewhere or what.. hopefully some1 can help me, i don't do a lot of work on compaqs at all lol Thankx -Kei [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: can't enter bios Sunday, November 16, 2003 at 7:39 pm Posted by Mathew (1 messages posted) Key - or anyone else - did you ever resolved your problem. I'm having the same issue. Mathew [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: can't enter bios Saturday, February 21, 2004 at 9:05 am Posted by matt (1 messages posted) I'm having the same prob. with my armada 1750 with win 2000 AS installed....It just stopped booting...all i get is the "compaq" screen and then a blank screen....cant get into bios, no start-up disks will work and the utility disk that i downloaded from the hp site won't work either the only thing that i can get to is the boot menu ( F8 ) but it won't go any further......damn!!!! On Sunday, November 16, 2003 at 7:39 pm, Mathew wrote: >Key - or anyone else - did you ever resolved your problem. I'm having the same issue. > >Mathew [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: can't enter bios Friday, February 27, 2004 at 5:25 pm Posted by joe (1 messages posted) Hold down Function key and F8 then power up the computer keep these keys down and tap F11. You will then get an option to save changes F1. You should then be able to boot up from the A drive. On Saturday, February 21, 2004 at 9:05 am, matt wrote: > >I'm having the same prob. with my armada 1750 with win 2000 AS installed....It just >stopped booting...all i get is the "compaq" screen and then a blank screen....cant >get into bios, no start-up disks will work and the utility disk that i downloaded >from the hp site won't work either the only thing that i can get to is the boot menu >( F8 ) but it won't go any further......damn!!!! > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: can't enter bios Friday, April 2, 2004 at 6:07 am Posted by Bill (7 messages posted) Oh my God.... I could kiss you. I tried EVERYTHING but nothing worked... until I tried your solution. Where on earth did you figure out that those key combinations did that? On Friday, February 27, 2004 at 5:25 pm, joe wrote: >Hold down Function key and F8 then power up the computer keep these keys down and >tap F11. You will then get an option to save changes F1. You should then be able >to boot up from the A drive. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: can't enter bios Saturday, May 29, 2004 at 5:46 am Posted by mike (1 messages posted) THIS IS THE SOLUTION...to that horrible problem. thank you Joe!! On Friday, February 27, 2004 at 5:25 pm, joe wrote: >Hold down Function key and F8 then power up the computer keep these keys down and >tap F11. You will then get an option to save changes F1. You should then be able >to boot up from the A drive. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: can't enter bios Wednesday, June 23, 2004 at 8:53 am Posted by coco (1 messages posted) i have de same problem, can you give more details about this combinison. On Friday, April 2, 2004 at 6:07 am, Bill wrote: >Oh my God.... I could kiss you. I tried EVERYTHING but nothing worked... until I >tried your solution. Where on earth did you figure out that those key combinations >did that? > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: can't enter bios Wednesday, July 28, 2004 at 6:52 pm Posted by Nathan Skerl (1 messages posted) would try: http://h18007.www1.hp.com/support/files/Armada/us/download/8093.html cheers [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: can't enter bios Monday, August 2, 2004 at 7:03 am Posted by GJK (1 messages posted) Function key? What is the 'function' key? Thanks for any clarifications. On Friday, February 27, 2004 at 5:25 pm, joe wrote: >Hold down Function key and F8 then power up the computer keep these keys down and >tap F11. You will then get an option to save changes F1. You should then be able >to boot up from the A drive. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: can't enter bios Wednesday, September 15, 2004 at 7:00 am Posted by Andy (1 messages posted) tried this, did not work. What is the function key? On Monday, August 2, 2004 at 7:03 am, GJK wrote: >Function key? What is the 'function' key? > >Thanks for any clarifications. > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: can't enter bios Saturday, September 18, 2004 at 11:21 am Posted by Libsky (1 messages posted) Joe, many thanx! Had a boot problem with Win 2000. After these magic keys the issues was solved (probably a memory problem). Thanx! >Hold down Function key and F8 then power up the computer keep these keys down and >tap F11. You will then get an option to save changes F1. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: can't enter bios Friday, December 10, 2004 at 2:23 am Posted by ym (3 messages posted) I cant and dont know how to get into Bios aswell. I have an Armada 1500 model, checked Compaqs site and they have a bios upgrade and in the fixes it says somthing about fixing an option within the Setup F10. so based upon that I presumed it is F10. but guess what it don't work. or i am not doing it right. I am pressing F10 as soon as the memory is displayed and keep pressing it until the laptop starts to beep when ever i press F10, then 95 starts. This is really starting to annoy me. any other suggestions would be helpfull. On Wednesday, October 24, 2001 at 7:28 am, jameschprice wrote: > >how to get into bios on compaq computer. tried esc, then f10 but nothing happens. > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: can't enter bios Saturday, December 11, 2004 at 4:36 pm Posted by Ogg (274 messages posted) NOTE that WinME is NOT supported with that SoftPaq: "SUPPORTED OPERATING SYSTEMS: IBM OS/2, Microsoft Windows 3.x and MS-DOS, Microsoft Windows 95, Microsoft Windows 98, Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 3.5, Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 4.0 " On Wednesday, July 28, 2004 at 6:52 pm, Nathan Skerl wrote: >would try: > > >http://h18007.www1.hp.com/support/files/Armada/us/download/8093.html > > >cheers [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: can't enter bios Saturday, December 11, 2004 at 4:55 pm Posted by Ogg (274 messages posted) Did you try the following that was posted by "joe" on Friday, February 27, 2004 at 5:25 pm ???............. Hold down Function key and F8 then power up the computer keep these keys down and tap F11. You will then get an option to save changes F1. You should then be able to boot up from the A drive. On Friday, December 10, 2004 at 2:23 am, ym wrote: >I cant and dont know how to get into Bios aswell. I have an Armada 1500 model, checked >Compaqs site and they have a bios upgrade and in the fixes it says somthing about >fixing an option within the Setup F10. so based upon that I presumed it is F10. but >guess what it don't work. or i am not doing it right. >I am pressing F10 as soon as the memory is displayed and keep pressing it until >the laptop starts to beep when ever i press F10, then 95 starts. >This is really starting to annoy me. >any other suggestions would be helpfull. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: can't enter bios Monday, December 27, 2004 at 2:41 pm Posted by Billy (1 messages posted) I also had this problem on a Compaq Armada 1750 Notebook. I had just downloaded windows updates for Windows XP Professional. After the reboot the screen went blank. I thought the screen went bad on me. The holding down of the function key and F8 key and tapping the F11 on bootup worked fantastically! Thank you! I just figured that I would post to back up that guys solution. Kudos! On Saturday, December 11, 2004 at 4:36 pm, Ogg wrote: >NOTE that WinME is NOT supported with that SoftPaq: > > "SUPPORTED OPERATING SYSTEMS: IBM OS/2, Microsoft Windows 3.x and MS-DOS, Microsoft >Windows 95, Microsoft Windows 98, Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 3.5, Microsoft >Windows NT Workstation 4.0 " > > > > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: can't enter bios Wednesday, January 26, 2005 at 4:33 am Posted by aljaz (1 messages posted) I hawe a notebook compaq armada 1700.I can´t get in to bios.When I press f10 nothing happend. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: can't enter bios Sunday, February 13, 2005 at 6:57 pm Posted by Tom (1 messages posted) Shut off the computer. Hold down the FN key and start the computer. Tap on the F11 key repeatedly. Then F1 to save CMOS. Have fun. On Wednesday, January 26, 2005 at 4:33 am, aljaz wrote: >I hawe a notebook compaq armada 1700.I can´t get >in to bios.When I press f10 nothing happend. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: can't enter bios Wednesday, February 23, 2005 at 4:52 pm Posted by David (1 messages posted) this fixed my problem as well 100% congrats to the finder of the keystokes, please keep up the good work, my hard drive is acually responding to the format command at this very moment. I LOVE THIS SITE On Sunday, February 13, 2005 at 6:57 pm, Tom wrote: >Shut off the computer. Hold down the FN key and start the computer. Tap on the > F11 key repeatedly. Then F1 to save CMOS. Have fun. > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: can't enter bios Monday, March 14, 2005 at 9:43 am Posted by phill (1 messages posted) This indeed does work although you do need to power down the computer fully before holding the keys, trying to do it with control/alt/delete will not work as I found out after much annoyance! Great stuff though, bless ya! On Saturday, May 29, 2004 at 5:46 am, mike wrote: >THIS IS THE SOLUTION...to that horrible problem. > >thank you Joe!! > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: can't enter bios Sunday, April 10, 2005 at 1:34 pm Posted by Wendolyn A Bartley (1 messages posted) What do you do if the keyboard does not have a FN key? On Sunday, February 13, 2005 at 6:57 pm, Tom wrote: >Shut off the computer. Hold down the FN key and start the computer. Tap on the > F11 key repeatedly. Then F1 to save CMOS. Have fun. > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: can't enter bios Friday, May 20, 2005 at 4:20 am Posted by jackson (1 messages posted) Dear sir , i am having compaq Armada 1750. now i am can't go to BIOS settings ,so kindly let me the related information as soon as possible. with regards, jackson. http://www.annoyances.org/ [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: can't enter bios Saturday, June 18, 2005 at 5:35 pm Posted by tony (1 messages posted) i tried f2 and esc and it didn't work. any other way? On Wednesday, October 24, 2001 at 10:09 am, Spanky wrote: >Try f2 or delete. I recommend rebooting and as soon as the machine has power, tap >either of these keys continously until you get in. You may find that Compaqs boot >past the spot where you can get into the bios quite fast and it may require a few >attempts. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: can't enter bios Tuesday, July 5, 2005 at 9:57 pm Posted by KevinH (1 messages posted) Thanx for posting this. The link for the softpaq "www.compaq.com/support/files/armada/us/download/8093.html" totally solved the bios problem I had with an Armada 1750. :D On Thursday, March 20, 2003 at 8:27 pm, Student wrote: > Man, I was reading some posted mensage and I came across your answer. It just >fits right on to the problem that I was having with one of my junk computers. Thanks >body. [:]| www.compaq.com/support/files/armada/us/download/8093.html [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: can't enter bios Wednesday, July 6, 2005 at 9:13 pm Posted by Grant Blesma (1 messages posted) outstanding - it worked like a champ. thanks! On Friday, February 27, 2004 at 5:25 pm, joe wrote: >Hold down Function key and F8 then power up the computer keep these keys down and >tap F11. You will then get an option to save changes F1. You should then be able >to boot up from the A drive. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: can't enter bios Friday, September 2, 2005 at 3:05 am Posted by Roger (1 messages posted) Hi! Just wanted to say this worked for me. Thanks! ~ Roger On Sunday, February 13, 2005 at 6:57 pm, Tom wrote: >Shut off the computer. Hold down the FN key and start the computer. Tap on the > F11 key repeatedly. Then F1 to save CMOS. Have fun. > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: can't enter bios Saturday, October 22, 2005 at 9:10 am Posted by katie (1 messages posted) I have tried this combination and my comaq armada 1700 says 162- System options not set I just want to reinstall the operating system and change my boot options so it boots off the cd first. Any help? On Wednesday, July 6, 2005 at 9:13 pm, Grant Blesma wrote: >outstanding - it worked like a champ. thanks! > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: can't enter bios Saturday, November 5, 2005 at 7:30 pm Posted by gouresh (1 messages posted) >I have a armada 1592DT which is giving the same problem as above if anyone can help pls mail me or reply to this mail On Saturday, October 22, 2005 at 9:10 am, katie wrote: > >I have tried this combination and my comaq armada 1700 says 162- System options not >set > >I just want to reinstall the operating system and change my boot options so it boots >off the cd first. > >Any help? > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: can't enter bios Tuesday, November 15, 2005 at 2:22 pm Posted by Angelina N Stephenson (1 messages posted) Having the same problem, 162-System options not set, any help? On Saturday, November 5, 2005 at 7:30 pm, gouresh wrote: >>I have a armada 1592DT which is giving the same problem as above if anyone can help >pls mail me or reply to this mail > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: can't enter bios Friday, November 25, 2005 at 1:40 pm Posted by bastaadesso@katamail (1 messages posted) Hi! i've a compaq armada 1750 and I too have a problem with my bios. i tried with fn+f8 and than f11 but it doesn't work. I tried fn+f11 and with f1 i saved the cmos setting, but what it means? after this i can't enter my bios aniway. suggestions? On Friday, September 2, 2005 at 3:05 am, Roger wrote: >Hi! > Just wanted to say this worked for me. Thanks! > >~ Roger > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: can't enter bios Saturday, December 17, 2005 at 11:00 pm Posted by John Smith (1 messages posted) Its real annoying when people answer a simple question with the answer to a DIFFERENT question. What we want to know here is how to ENTER THE BIOS not HOW TO RESET THE CMOS INFORMATION or BOOT FROM DRIVE A. Did the people responding on this even bother to look at the title of the thread? If they did they would see "CANT ENTER BIOS" not "CAN'T FLASH BIOS". ***SO DOES ANYBODY KNOW HOW TO ENTER THE BIOS ON A COMPAQ ARMADA 1750? ***(NOT HOW TO FLASH THE BIOS OR BOOT FROM A FLOPPY, WE KNOW THAT ONE). On Friday, November 25, 2005 at 1:40 pm, bastaadesso@katamail wrote: >Hi! i've a compaq armada 1750 and I too have a problem with my bios. i tried with >fn+f8 and than f11 but it doesn't work. I tried fn+f11 and with f1 i saved the cmos >setting, but what it means? after this i can't enter my bios aniway. >suggestions? > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: can't enter bios Monday, December 19, 2005 at 3:49 am Posted by blurf (2 messages posted) This page may be of help if you can't enter the BIOS in the usual way: http://home.earthlink.net/~xinilux/compaq/index.html#BIOS The second paragraph of the "Update and Configure the BIOS" section is about this problem. In short, you can get a boot floppy from the HP/Compaq site which gives you access to the BIOS to make changes. On Friday, November 25, 2005 at 1:40 pm, bastaadesso@katamail wrote: >Hi! i've a compaq armada 1750 and I too have a problem with my bios. i tried with >fn+f8 and than f11 but it doesn't work. I tried fn+f11 and with f1 i saved the cmos >setting, but what it means? after this i can't enter my bios aniway. >suggestions? > > HTH, blurf [Reply or follow-up to this message] I Finally got it Thursday, February 9, 2006 at 7:01 pm Posted by Terrance (1 messages posted) i tried fn key and i was reading the article didn't work continue to read on again i read the same thing and finally it worked. Thank You [Reply or follow-up to this message] Linux Wednesday, April 19, 2006 at 1:21 am Posted by pieter (1 messages posted) Hello there, i'm having the same problems with my Armada 1700. I formatted the hard drive, and afterwards, the windows 95 cd wouldnt boot. I'm planning now to install linux on this laptop (if it still wants to boot). Linux is pretty new to me so could anybody inform me about which linux distribution i should use? (keeping in mind that this is an old computer) Thanks! [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: can't enter bios Thursday, May 11, 2006 at 12:54 am Posted by rahul (1 messages posted) Thanks a Ton Mr Joe it solved On Friday, February 27, 2004 at 5:25 pm, joe wrote: >Hold down Function key and F8 then power up the computer keep these keys down and >tap F11. You will then get an option to save changes F1. You should then be able >to boot up from the A drive. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: can't enter bios Monday, August 21, 2006 at 4:36 pm Posted by Glenn (1 messages posted) This method works! on the Compaq 1700 without issue. Give it a try Glenn > > On Friday, September 2, 2005 at 3:05 am, Roger wrote: >Hi! > Just wanted to say this worked for me. Thanks! > >~ Roger [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: can't enter bios Thursday, August 31, 2006 at 2:15 pm Posted by Eric (1 messages posted) Thanks blurf, to create a floppy was the only way to access the bios on my 1750. Moreover on the Compaq website you can choose the language; for me it was french; Regards from Nice, France ;-) On Monday, December 19, 2005 at 3:49 am, blurf wrote: >This page may be of help if you can't enter the BIOS in the usual way: > >http://home.earthlink.net/~xinilux/compaq/index.html#BIOS > >The second paragraph of the "Update and Configure the BIOS" section is about this >problem. In short, you can get a boot floppy from the HP/Compaq site which gives >you access to the BIOS to make changes. > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: can't enter bios Thursday, September 7, 2006 at 9:52 pm Posted by blurf (2 messages posted) Update The website mentioned in my post no longer exists: http://home.earthlink.net/~xinilux This HP page has the BIOS-configuration floppy for the Armada 1700: http://h18007.www1.hp.com/support/files/armada/us/download/8093.html Regards, blurf On Thursday, August 31, 2006 at 2:15 pm, Eric wrote: >Thanks blurf, to create a floppy was the only way to access the bios on my 1750. >Moreover on the Compaq website you can choose the language; for me it was french; >Regards from Nice, France ;-) > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: can't enter bios Thursday, September 21, 2006 at 9:57 pm Posted by Alex b. (1 messages posted) yes, yes! My armada 1750 had the same prob. compaq logo flashes and then nothing. This works! memory may need to be reset in bios. That was my problem. On Wednesday, July 6, 2005 at 9:13 pm, Grant Blesma wrote: >outstanding - it worked like a champ. thanks! > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: can't enter bios Thursday, November 23, 2006 at 11:39 am Posted by AaronH (1 messages posted) I am having the same problem. Can't get into the 1700 bios. I've followed the Fn F8 F11 combo then F1 to save. Rebooted, then tried Fn... F10... F1.. and F2, nope... still can't get into the bios. Aaaaaaarg!! Does anyone know for sure? On Saturday, December 17, 2005 at 11:00 pm, John Smith wrote: >Its real annoying when people answer a simple question with the answer to a DIFFERENT >question. > >What we want to know here is how to ENTER THE BIOS not HOW TO RESET THE CMOS INFORMATION >or BOOT FROM DRIVE A. > >Did the people responding on this even bother to look at the title of the thread? > >If they did they would see "CANT ENTER BIOS" not "CAN'T FLASH BIOS". > >***SO DOES ANYBODY KNOW HOW TO ENTER THE BIOS ON A COMPAQ ARMADA 1750? ***(NOT HOW >TO FLASH THE BIOS OR BOOT FROM A FLOPPY, WE KNOW THAT ONE). > > > > > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: can't enter bios Sunday, December 17, 2006 at 9:47 am Posted by Ulrich Holtzhausen (1 messages posted) HOW ON EARTH! I had WinXP running on it, wanted to install Linux, couldn't do so because I couldn't enter the BIOS. I ended up here and I did this: *Switched off computer *Held down FN key and pressed F11 continuously on bootup. *It gave me some weird info so I pressed F2 (Do not save changes) And from then I couldn't ever boot into WinXP again. How the hell do I go about fixing this now??? [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: can't enter bios Wednesday, March 7, 2007 at 5:36 am Posted by harish arora (1 messages posted) On Monday, March 7, 2007 at 19:10 pm, Sy_Ba_Rite wrote: >Shut down the computer and wait 10 seconds. Turn your monitor on, then press F1 and >turn on your computer, hold down F1 while the computer is powering up. Good Luck >Sy > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: can't enter bios Sunday, March 18, 2007 at 4:45 pm Posted by Alennx (1 messages posted) I have a 1750 that boots to the Compaq logo and then goes blank. My keyboard has a function key in the lower left corner. I have downloaded the floppy disks, 3 that is, from HP/Compaq. I don't get any messages from F8 or F11 or any other 'fing key. No matter what I press or when I press it, it goes to the logo and goes blank. This unit is getting parted out! THAT is the answer! AD [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: can't enter bios Monday, April 2, 2007 at 7:07 am Posted by Ed (741 messages posted) For comprehensive instructions on how to enter the BIOS screen (in order to adjust the CMOS settings) go to: http://www.bootdisk.com/readme.htm#bios Ed On Sunday, March 18, 2007 at 3:45 pm, Alennx wrote: >I have a 1750 that boots to the Compaq logo and then goes blank. My keyboard has >a function key in the lower left corner. > >I have downloaded the floppy disks, 3 that is, from HP/Compaq. > >I don't get any messages from F8 or F11 or any other 'fing key. No matter what I >press or when I press it, it goes to the logo and goes blank. > >This unit is getting parted out! THAT is the answer! > >AD [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: can't enter bios Friday, May 18, 2007 at 9:54 am Posted by matt (1 messages posted) It works. I'm not sure what causes this because it does read parts of the hard drive. If you click F8 for advanced options it gives you that screen for XP or 2000, so some setting in the bios is causing it to not load. Never seen this problem before. I would like to not only thank Joe, but I would like to think the person that posted this question first, it saved me alot of time. Thanks alot! -Matt [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: can't enter bios Tuesday, August 14, 2007 at 8:34 pm Posted by Brian Suh (1 messages posted) HEY HEY LISTEN... IF YOU DONT HAVE AN FN KEY YOU HOLD THE KEY TO THE LEFT OF ALT WHICH LOOKS LIKE A FLYING WINDOW TO THE RIGHT OF CONTROL AND HIT F11. Ive been trying for so long reading through all this garbage and the FN probably works on laptops because they actually have the key so i said hey ill try holding the key that is in the same spot lol and it works DAMN NICE. i already had windows installed on my HD but i had to put it in this old compaq bc my computer crashed and as you know you cant run a hd with windows installed on other computers because of windows protection but now i can actually install windows on it with the DiSC DRIVE instead of the gay FLOPPY DRIVE. Thanks for the man who came up with the FN key. AWESOME On Sunday, December 17, 2006 at 9:47 am, Ulrich Holtzhausen wrote: >HOW ON EARTH! I had WinXP running on it, wanted to install Linux, couldn't do so >because I couldn't enter the BIOS. I ended up here and I did this: > >*Switched off computer >*Held down FN key and pressed F11 continuously on bootup. >*It gave me some weird info so I pressed F2 (Do not save changes) > >And from then I couldn't ever boot into WinXP again. How the hell do I go about fixing >this now??? [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: can't enter bios Wednesday, December 19, 2007 at 3:51 pm Posted by Sully (2 messages posted) Is there a combination to directly boot the CD Drive? On Friday, February 27, 2004 at 5:25 pm, joe wrote: >Hold down Function key and F8 then power up the computer keep these keys down and >tap F11. You will then get an option to save changes F1. You should then be able >to boot up from the A drive. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: can't enter bios Thursday, December 20, 2007 at 8:55 pm Posted by Ed (741 messages posted) No. The boot order is controlled by the BIOS: you must enter the BIOS screen and set the boot sequence order there. Ed On Wednesday, December 19, 2007 at 3:51 pm, Sully wrote: >Is there a combination to directly boot the CD Drive? > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: can't enter bios Wednesday, January 9, 2008 at 3:46 pm Posted by corvettecrzy (1 messages posted) This worked for me but no A drive...bummer ! Then I rebooted and held down f10 with OS disk in drive and it booted from cd rom...thanx On Monday, December 27, 2004 at 2:41 pm, Billy wrote: >I also had this problem on a Compaq Armada 1750 Notebook. I had just downloaded windows >updates for Windows XP Professional. After the reboot the screen went blank. I thought >the screen went bad on me. The holding down of the function key and F8 key and tapping >the F11 on bootup worked fantastically! Thank you! I just figured that I would post >to back up that guys solution. Kudos! >> > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: can't enter bios Friday, January 18, 2008 at 4:04 am Posted by Steve (1 messages posted) I have an Armada 1750, tried all the key combinations listed here, downloaded the program to make the boot disk from the Compaq site, Armada started to boot from the floppy, gave me a message in French that it was reading the floppy, then gave me an error message - in French again - that there was a problem and I should press enter, which took me back to the Compaq logo, so no joy. Tried this with two floppies in case the first was corrupted, but the same result. Anyone out there got any ideas? On Thursday, August 31, 2006 at 2:15 pm, Eric wrote: >Thanks blurf, to create a floppy was the only way to access the bios on my 1750. >Moreover on the Compaq website you can choose the language; for me it was french; >Regards from Nice, France ;-) > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: can't enter bios Thursday, March 27, 2008 at 2:14 pm Posted by Harm (1 messages posted) Hey, hey, I've got a compaq armada 1500 but i don't remember my power-on password. Is there any way to crack the password? I've tried almost everything.... any help?! [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: can't enter bios Tuesday, August 5, 2008 at 10:26 pm Posted by john (1 messages posted) well boy have i got a prob now. same prob with entering bios. tried fn+f8 then tapping f11. got a screen about changing or saving something. NOW THE COMPAQ WILL NOT BOOTAT ALL. DO NOT GET THE memory check, will not boot to disk cd or a: with start up disk.. found a file on hp for set up but sys will not boot to any device. HELP PLEASE! thanks On Thursday, March 27, 2008 at 2:14 pm, Harm wrote: >Hey, hey, > >I've got a compaq armada 1500 but i don't remember my power-on password. Is there >any way to crack the password? > >I've tried almost everything.... any help?! [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: can't enter bios Thursday, August 28, 2008 at 1:44 pm Posted by Ed (741 messages posted) To learn how to enter the BIOS / CMOS set-up screen on a Compaq computer, read this post. Common keystrokes that will access the BIOS Setup in a Compaq are F1 , F2 , F10 , and Del . Compaq computers rely (or used to, when I had one) on a special set of diagnostic tools that reside on a non-DOS diagnostic partition occupying Tracks 0 and 1 of the hard disk. The same tools are (or used to be) supplied by Compaq on a special (bootable) floppy disk that Compaq supplied with the computer. The same tools could be downloaded from Compaq's website, and run to build the necessary floppy disk. All the user had to supply was one blank floppy for the tools to be installed on by the downloaded program. Depending on the model of Compaq PC you own, look on their website for the diagnostic tools for that particular model. The floppy disk (once formatted by the downloaded Compaq program) is used to boot the computer, and loads into memory the necessary tools to analyse the computer and (hopefully) to correct any faults. However, if the computer won't boot at all I would tend to suspect a fault in the Master Boot Record (MBR) in sector CHS 0-0-1 which contains the partition table for the hard disk. To cure faults of this type, a first step is to read my posting here which will help you understand sector 0-0-1 and provides links to some tools you might be able to use to resolve the problem. You will need a Windows ME emergency boot disk from here. Ed On Tuesday, August 5, 2008 at 10:26 pm, john wrote: >well boy have i got a prob now. same prob with entering bios. tried fn+f8 then >tapping f11. got a screen about changing or saving something. NOW THE COMPAQ WILL >NOT BOOTAT ALL. DO NOT GET THE memory check, will not boot to disk cd or a: with >start up disk.. found a file on hp for set up but sys will not boot to any device. > HELP PLEASE! >thanks > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: can't enter bios Friday, September 19, 2008 at 10:31 am Posted by dragan (1 messages posted) 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 [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: can't enter bios Saturday, October 4, 2008 at 10:54 am Posted by Ed (741 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 [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: can't enter bios Monday, December 1, 2008 at 2:16 pm 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. - 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. - 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. - 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 > > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: can't enter bios Friday, January 2, 2009 at 10:29 am Posted by Ed (741 messages posted) Happily, you were able to solve your particular problem (by building yourself a bootable CD to use in your PC's CD-ROM drive). However, you implied that the reason why you could not access the BIOS was that you had removed the computer's hard drive. If you truly thought that, it's unclear why you didn't solve your problem by simply re-attaching the hard drive. However, removing the hard drive could not have caused that problem. A computer will start up even with no hard drive present. For instance, it used to be common in the old days to have computers that *only* had a floppy drive! Also, when building a new system it is always necessary to enter the BIOS first, to set up the system to recognise the hard disk which you are about to install. The BIOS is entered by pressing the correct key(s) on the keyboard during the Power Up Self-Test (POST), *before* any disks are accessed. No hard disk or floppy disk is required to be attached. The BIOS contains the stored settings which tell the computer what disks are on the system. So (for example) when installing a new hard disk during system recovery the first step is to press DEL - or whatever is the appropriate key - in order to enter the BIOS screen, for the purpose of auto-detecting the new disk. If not DEL, the key to press is always one of the function keys (F1 to F12), sometimes in combination with the CTRL key or the ALT key. Whatever other problems there may be, entering the BIOS during start-up does NOT require a bootable disk (nor any disk) to be present on the system. It is therefore straightforward to remove the old settings associated with the former (damaged) hard disk, as a first step. With a damaged system, it will often be the case that you will be installing a brand new hard disk, not yet containing an operating system, one that will need partitioning and formating before an O/S can be installed on it from a bootable Windows installation CD or an OEM recovery CD. The OEM system recovery CD supplied with most computers sold in the last 10 years will handle those steps for you, from the CD drive, without needing to boot from a floppy disk first. I actually have such an OEM recovery CD, supplied with my Win ME computer 8 years ago, and once had to use it to re-install Win ME on a replacement hard drive. Ed On Monday, December 1, 2008 at 2:16 pm, jombo wrote: >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. > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: can't enter bios Wednesday, January 14, 2009 at 3:03 pm Posted by Robbo (1 messages posted) I've been fiddling with an old Compaq Armada 1750 laptop now for about a week. It had been formated which destroyed the diagnostics partition on the HDD. I searched the internet all over the place, found information and files here and there to the point where I now can set up the HDD with DIAGS partition (7Mb FAT) at the start of the disk and look at the BIOS, but there is a BIOS password to prevent access to saving settings. I have flashed the onboard BIOS ROM, set up the HDD and loaded Win98 with all necessary drivers etc and all the Compaq software. I can access anything EXCEPT the BIOS via f10 at boot to make changes. Damned password stops me. The boot setup floppy works fine, just cannot save settings back to BIOS. I've even disconnected the CMOS battery, allowed it to reset and re-done the DIAGS partition setup. Nothing allows me into the press f10 to get into BIOS because I don't know the password. Just access by floppy setup disk. This is really frustrating, but the laptop works fine so I'll just put Linux on it as the Compaq software is pointless without full access to BIOS. I get a conflict with the PCMCIA port and cannot resolve it via BIOS without saving the BIOS changes, so cannot get Win98 to run the wireless card. BTW, the Fn, F8, F11 key combo at boot just re-sets the BIOS to default settings and allows you to save or ignore the checksum condition it finds, but does nothing to remove the BIOS password. I tried a number of tiny Linux distros, so far DSL 4.4.10 runs best on it. Partition the HDD (without removing the DIAGS partition) to Ext2, also make a Linux swap partition at the end of the disk. I use 298Mb for it. You boot to the CD and then install to HDD. It will find the swap on re-boot to HDD. Using Lilo bootloader works best with it. It takes all of half an hour to be partitioned and running, whereas windows 98 can take you a week of stuffing around and it's not secure for the internet anyway:~) Partition magic pro does the job fantastic. Find it on Hirens boot cd 9.7 [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: can't enter bios Tuesday, April 14, 2009 at 1:48 pm Posted by Ed (741 messages posted) This excellent page might resolve your Compaq password problem: http://www.elfqrin.com/docs/biospw.html Ed On Wednesday, January 14, 2009 at 3:03 pm, Robbo wrote: >I've been fiddling with an old Compaq Armada 1750 laptop now for about a week. It >had been formated which destroyed the diagnostics partition on the HDD. I searched >the internet all over the place, found information and files here and there to the >point where I now can set up the HDD with DIAGS partition (7Mb FAT) at the start >of the disk and look at the BIOS, but there is a BIOS password to prevent access >to saving settings. I have flashed the onboard BIOS ROM, set up the HDD and loaded >Win98 with all necessary drivers etc and all the Compaq software. I can access anything >EXCEPT the BIOS via f10 at boot to make changes. Damned password stops me. The boot >setup floppy works fine, just cannot save settings back to BIOS. I've even disconnected >the CMOS battery, allowed it to reset and re-done the DIAGS partition setup. Nothing >allows me into the press f10 to get into BIOS because I don't know the password. >Just access by floppy setup disk. This is really frustrating, but the laptop works >fine so I'll just put Linux on it as the Compaq software is pointless without full >access to BIOS. I get a conflict with the PCMCIA port and cannot resolve it via BIOS >without saving the BIOS changes, so cannot get Win98 to run the wireless card. > >BTW, the Fn, F8, F11 key combo at boot just re-sets the BIOS to default settings >and allows you to save or ignore the checksum condition it finds, but does nothing >to remove the BIOS password. > >I tried a number of tiny Linux distros, so far DSL 4.4.10 runs best on it. Partition >the HDD (without removing the DIAGS partition) to Ext2, also make a Linux swap partition >at the end of the disk. I use 298Mb for it. You boot to the CD and then install to >HDD. It will find the swap on re-boot to HDD. Using Lilo bootloader works best with >it. It takes all of half an hour to be partitioned and running, whereas windows 98 >can take you a week of stuffing around and it's not secure for the internet anyway:~) >Partition magic pro does the job fantastic. Find it on Hirens boot cd 9.7 [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: can't enter bios Tuesday, October 6, 2009 at 6:19 pm Posted by Joe Grenier (5 messages posted) Ive had this 1750 for years in junk box. Now with this new info Hold down Function key and F8 then power up the computer keep these keys down and tap F11. You will then get an option to save changes F1. Worked. I was able to boot off XP pro and install. Had all drivers installed and working but too slow. Only 128 ram. So formated and installed XP Performance edition. Runs super. Had no drivers on this edition so had trouble with drivers missing. Dont support xp on 1750. So reinstalled full xp pro. Backed up drivers. Then formated and installed XP Performance edition. Now have a great working laptop with everything working. Rogers stick internet. Kids love it. Use it everyday. Thx for the info. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Couldn't enter Compaq PC's bios Wednesday, October 7, 2009 at 5:05 am Posted by Kiwi (2228 messages posted) Having just backtracked through the entire message thread, I don't see anywhere in it that anyone suggested PIRACY as a valid option. There is no such thing as a legal "XP Performance Edition", as you should be well aware. That is a hacked copy of a copyrighted product. You should be embarrassed with yourself for publicly admitting that you are a thief, and (TTBOMK) for breaking the forum's ToS while doing that, I'm sure. . Kiwi ** On Tuesday, October 6, 2009 at 6:19 pm, Joe Grenier wrote: >Ive had this 1750 for years in junk box. Now with this new info Hold down Function >key and F8 then power up the computer keep these keys down and tap F11. You will >then get an option to save changes F1. Worked. I was able to boot off XP pro and >install. Had all drivers installed and working but too slow. Only 128 ram. So formated >and installed XP Performance edition. Runs super. Had no drivers on this edition >so had trouble with drivers missing. Dont support xp on 1750. So reinstalled full >xp pro. Backed up drivers. Then formated and installed XP Performance edition. Now >have a great working laptop with everything working. Rogers stick internet. Kids >love it. Use it everyday. Thx for the info. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Couldn't enter Compaq PC's bios Wednesday, October 7, 2009 at 8:40 am Posted by Joe Grenier (5 messages posted) Well are you kidding me. I have three legal Win xp pro and two of Xp home, 2 of 2000 and so fourth. All LEGAL. You make these slim down versions with your own versions of xp or what have you. You have to or you cant register it. There are many apps and other forums to help with this. Different versions can be made just for such reasons. I have an unopened win me but have not used it as the computer it was going to go into years ago suddenly got a case of the new higher OS upgrades. I have much software bought and kept in the office that I never did use. (Legal Software) You should be embarrassed with yourself for publicly saying that I am a thief, and (TTBOMK) for breaking the forum's ToS while doing that, I'm sure. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: can't enter bios Monday, June 7, 2010 at 1:18 pm Posted by Mike (1 messages posted) You FRIGGIN' ROCK!!!!! On Sunday, February 13, 2005 at 6:57 pm, Tom wrote: >Shut off the computer. Hold down the FN key and start the computer. Tap on the > F11 key repeatedly. Then F1 to save CMOS. Have fun. > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: can't enter bios Saturday, March 19, 2011 at 3:38 am Posted by iball (1 messages posted) had the same prob just do the fn+f8+f11 thing, mashing f11 for a while. it works after a few tries. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: can't enter bios Thursday, March 24, 2011 at 11:56 pm Posted by shahhid (1 messages posted) my laptop is problem start laptop going one BIOS (continuous) [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows Me Discussion Forum