a compaq r3000 ( r3265 maybe ) for some 4 years now. last year it started switching to battery while on ac and eventually turning off unexpectadly bcs the battery holds more or less 5 minutes. bcsw i needed a relyable laptop i already bought one but i'm...

Help needed with HP laptop bios. Archived from groups: comp.sys.laptops () Hi I have a hewlet packard Pavillion laptop. When I enter bios setup there are only a few things I can acess. ie. Time and date setting, Passwords and numlock. There appears to be...

disk in the boot sequence you will still have a problem. Check boot from hard disk is the first or second option for booting in your laptop bios. Now save bios changes and reboot the laptop. If it now starts XP then your done, if it does not and gives...

with laptops, but I cannot read the prompt to see what will access it... Archived from groups: comp.sys.laptops () The procedure for getting into a Laptop bios is brand (and sometimes model) specific. On thing that you can try is holding down a key on the...

Compaq PII laptop BIOS problem. Archived from groups: comp.sys.laptops () Ok My friend has a compaq PII laptop WITHOUT a floppy drive. We need some help on figuring out how to get into the bios? Problem is , apparently you need to have some compaq...

way, it should work automatically with Windows. Reseting bios didn't help. Bios does not support USB. I know that the BIOS will see a bootable CD. I'm going to try to see if I can make a bootable CD with the new BIOS on it. I just need to find out what...

this Armada laptop... Either that or I'm missing some key installation step(s) particular to this line of Compaqs. I even did the HDD swap with the battery removed, and that didn't help. I peeped into the laptop's BIOS (if you can call it that), and...

verified Ram compatability for Your laptop (Didn't see Laptop brand/Model). Bear in mind laptops can be very picky about memory. Also is your laptop bios locked, or can you get to Memory settings. Go to manuf web site to see if they show compatibility for...

So please help me out, please.. Hello fellow laptop owners, I own a HP DV2810us laptop, hope don't need to mention the configuration as it is a pre-configured HP model. I am facing a problem and so need peoples help from here a tomshardware.com. I have a...