HaywireMac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@linux-mandrake.com on 11/03/2003 11:26:48 AM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: Re: [newbie] Can't start X, "No Devices" On Mon, 03 Nov 2003 10:51:01 -0800 Aronsmith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > Did you try F-10 on boot , that will access the bios on most Compaq's I had the same machine, there ain't no way in hell you are going to access the BIOS without the proper util from the Compaq site. They have floppy images which will give you access to the BIOS to turn off "features" such as anti-virus, PNP, or whatever. The BIOS has probably overwritten some part of the boot or other sector of the drive, and this may be what is causing the prob. -- It is correct that the BIOS utility is normally written to a partition on the harddrive on this model of Compaq, F10 accesses that partition at boot-up. The partition was overwritten during one of my many attempts to install MDK91. It wasn't much good anyway -- there's no real BIOS control in there, just a description of the various hardwares and some minor testing software. There's no access to the important BIOS features found on modern computers (ie, no PNP, no Energy Savings, no timings, etc.). What does it mean when X claims "No devices found"? Does that mean it can't find the videocard or that it can't find a window manager?
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