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Problem accesing BIOS on Compaq Armada 7770DT
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I hope there is someone who could help me with this problem. I own quite an old notebook Compaq Armada 7770DT. Few months ago /maybe 2/, I had to reinstall operating system /WIN 98/. That included formatting the HDD. I had one physical HDD separated in two logical unit/drives C: and D:.
After formatting I created only one logical unit/drive C:. But with next reboot I could not acces BIOS setup.
Usually, when I always booted the notebook, first there was a memory check in the upper left corner and then "fat" cursor blinked in the upper right corner and that was the time to press F10 to get in the BIOS setup.
Now only memory check remained, but no sign of "fat" cursor and even pressing F10 after memory test doesn't start BIOS. I consulted the manual supplied with this notebook and tried all that's written there, but nothing helped. I also tried another HDD, but it is obvious, that it has nothing to do with that.
I hope there is someone who could help me with this problem. I own quite an old notebook Compaq Armada 7770DT. Few months ago /maybe 2/, I had to reinstall operating system /WIN 98/. That included formatting the HDD. I had one physical HDD separated in two logical unit/drives C: and D:.
After formatting I created only one logical unit/drive C:. But with next reboot I could not acces BIOS setup.
Usually, when I always booted the notebook, first there was a memory check in the upper left corner and then "fat" cursor blinked in the upper right corner and that was the time to press F10 to get in the BIOS setup.
Now only memory check remained, but no sign of "fat" cursor and even pressing F10 after memory test doesn't start BIOS. I consulted the manual supplied with this notebook and tried all that's written there, but nothing helped. I also tried another HDD, but it is obvious, that it has nothing to do with that.
Some compaq's utilize some of the hard disk space to store the BIOS\F10 Setup programs, by re partitioning you have removed this, you need to look out your original disks and boot with your recovery cd to recreate the bios, im not sure however whether you can recreate this without data loss
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