Accessing bios on a Compaq Armada 7400

[Beth]

I am unable to access bios on start up. F10 does not work and no cursor appears in the right hand corner. Any thoughts?

Beth

[NickS]

Paging Toby B... paging Toby B....

[edwin]

F1 sometimes does the trick. It is operating normally besides this?

[Beth]

>F1 sometimes does the trick. It is operating normally besides this?<

Yes, it was operating normally (just reformatted and no OS at the moment). I did manage to dig out some info at the support site for Compaq. I saw repeated suggestions to unplug and remove the batteries and let it sit for 30 minutes and then put it back together. So, will give this a try.

[soupy]

You may have accidentally deleted the Non-DOS setup partition. Check the compaq website for F-10 setup and Diagnostic repair disks.

[KachiWachi]

I would agree.

I had that problem here recently with a Presario 7222ES where the F10 Partition was corrupted and the F1/F10 wouldn't function as intended. I went to HP/Compaq and downloaded the update for this machine and all is well.

[Toby B]

You need to go to the HP website and download the appropriate software. As mentioned the F10 option (diagnostics/BIOS) is on a hidden partition of located on the hard drive.

Go here
No you can have the fun of deciphering which of the 26 versions you actually have........

[soupy]

You need to go to the HP website

I hate seeing that in print.

[edwin]

I hate it in any shape or form. I need to find info on their "support" <chuckle> section sometimes...

[Toby B]

Well edwin between you tackling the HP side and me tackling the Compaq side we are doing a pretty good job at providing better support for their products then they want to do themselves.

And soupy - At some point hopefully we wont have to direct people to HP/Compaq. I am collecting info as quickly as possible and putting it up on my site.

[Beth]

Thanks for your imput. I have been at the "ahem site" as well. )