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October 8th 06, 02:42 PM
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how do you get into the bios of an old presario 5340?
I've been unable to get into the bios of this computer.
AMD k6-2, 400 mhz, 4 gig hard drive. A compaq splash screen comes on when it boots, and the best I can do is get it into safe mode with the F8 key. Hitting delete, or control, or alt, or tab during the boot doesn't do it, it just displays the word compaq in red letters and then boots win98. TIA for any ideas. mike ps: do you think clearing the cmos would help? 
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October 8th 06, 03:08 PM
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how do you get into the bios of an old presario 5340?
`AMD tower wrote:
I've been unable to get into the bios of this computer. AMD k6-2, 400 mhz, 4 gig hard drive. A compaq splash screen comes on when it boots, and the best I can do is get it into safe mode with the F8 key. Hitting delete, or control, or alt, or tab during the boot doesn't do it, it just displays the word compaq in red letters and then boots win98. TIA for any ideas. mike ps: do you think clearing the cmos would help? Hmmmm, try F2.
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October 8th 06, 04:34 PM
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how do you get into the bios of an old presario 5340?
F2
"`AMD tower" wrote in message news:4f7Wg.792$Gp4.277@trnddc08... I've been unable to get into the bios of this computer. AMD k6-2, 400 mhz, 4 gig hard drive. A compaq splash screen comes on when it boots, and the best I can do is get it into safe mode with the F8 key. Hitting delete, or control, or alt, or tab during the boot doesn't do it, it just displays the word compaq in red letters and then boots win98. TIA for any ideas. mike ps: do you think clearing the cmos would help?
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October 8th 06, 09:44 PM
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how do you get into the bios of an old presario 5340?
"JAD" wrote in message ... F2 "`AMD tower" wrote in message news:4f7Wg.792$Gp4.277@trnddc08... I've been unable to get into the bios of this computer. AMD k6-2, 400 mhz, 4 gig hard drive. A compaq splash screen comes on when it boots, and the best I can do is get it into safe mode with the F8 key. Hitting delete, or control, or alt, or tab during the boot doesn't do it, it just displays the word compaq in red letters and then boots win98. TIA for any ideas. mike ps: do you think clearing the cmos would help? F10 when splash screen showing, unless hidden partition has been removed, when you will need setup diskettes from HP/COMPAQ web site. Mike.
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October 10th 06, 02:39 AM
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how do you get into the bios of an old presario 5340?
Thanks for the F2 tips, that did it.
Not much was going on in the bios, but I found one setting that switched between full boot, and quick boot. it was set on quick, so I changed it to full to see what happened. And guess what? The full boot setting does a memory check, and half way through, it a reported bad memory location. Ah ha! problem solved. Thanks again, mike
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