meeeeee Posted December 27, 2003 Posted December 27, 2003 Hey i just got a used compaq armada 7400 laptop and i cant get to the bios when it boots up the first thing i see is compaq in bir red leters and then the windows startup screen i tryed hitting delete when i see the compaq screen but dosent work . How could i get in the bios?? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paranoid Posted December 27, 2003 Posted December 27, 2003 How old is it? Is it one of those Compaqs that stored the BIOS on the Hard Drive? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
H2O Posted December 27, 2003 Posted December 27, 2003 I think that the bios setup is before you see the big red letters! My suggestion is to press the DEL button right after pressing the power button to boot up. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
meeeeee Posted December 27, 2003 Posted December 27, 2003 (edited) paranoid it's a 333 with 128 ram so id say maybe 1995 and H2O i tryed what u said didn't work Edited December 27, 2003 by meeeeee Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Agallion Posted December 27, 2003 Posted December 27, 2003 ok...some compaq i have discoverd dont allow u to get into the bios at all..some u press f2 some shift some enter and some del...so try mashing all of those buttons Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
InvaderTrax Posted December 27, 2003 Posted December 27, 2003 If it's a 333, it's probably more 1998ish. Anyway, either F2 or Delete will get it Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sYstEmATiC Posted December 27, 2003 Posted December 27, 2003 some compaq's u have to hit F10 to get in, f1 "might" work but probably not....i have an asus p3 board that will work if u hit f1 or del. try f2 f10 and f1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
meeeeee Posted December 27, 2003 Posted December 27, 2003 well i tried everythng u guys said and nothing worked so i emailed compaq tech suport hopefuly they gonna right back soon with the answer im looking for Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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