On 11 Jul 2003 14:30:22 +1000
Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered:
Yeah, well, we're talking about JoeHill here - he couldn't partition
his way outta paper bag...or hit the broadside of a barn from the
inside, let alone deal with a complex, highly technical, super
sophisticated BIOS
On Fri, 2003-07-11 at 14:45, Frankie wrote:
Lol!!!
Oh god, why do I talk to you... you are gonna get me in trouble again...
Can't get in any deeper than y'all already jumped in the first time...
I certainly hope my reply to that question can't be deemed unintelligable
and stupid,
not sure
On Thu, 2003-07-10 at 21:45, Frankie wrote:
Lol!!!
Oh god, why do I talk to you... you are gonna get me in trouble again...
I certainly hope my reply to that question can't be deemed unintelligable
and stupid,
not sure I can handle the critism a second time.. :-)
Stephen, whatever you
On Thu, 10 Jul 2003 22:35:57 -0700
Eric Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered:
Setting the boot order isn't enough for you?
luckily it already knew to boot from a CD...for the Win98 install.
unfortunately (see other Compaq post), without a CD it will just NOT do
a network install, had to swap the CD
On Fri, 2003-07-11 at 15:00, JoeHill wrote:
LOL, who needs more crummy Compaq crap on here anyway?
New MDK 9.1 system booting as we speak, partitioned manually I might
add... course, my daughter could do that with an MDK install...
I almost miss the days of fdisk.
Uh, so you're saying
On 11 Jul 2003 16:35:21 +1000
Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered:
BTW, what was the issue, and how did you resolve it - for those of us
that really want to know...???
Well, I really just wanted to get into the BIOS to poke around, and this
whole thing just went crazy, I can't believe how
You're screwed.
I resemble that remark!
Apparently, even you do get into the BIOS, from what I've read, there's
not much to do anyway.
Whadda ya mean? Setting the boot order isn't enough for you?
Good ole Compaq.
It'll make a good test machine, though. If it'll work on this piece of
On Fri, 2003-07-11 at 16:36, JoeHill wrote:
On Thu, 10 Jul 2003 22:35:57 -0700
Eric Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered:
Setting the boot order isn't enough for you?
luckily it already knew to boot from a CD...for the Win98 install.
unfortunately (see other Compaq post), without a CD it
Joe - Well did you get into the darned bios or not...there's wagers here
about the result.
MRW
- Original Message -
From: JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, July 11, 2003 3:00 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] How to get into BIOS on Compaq Deskpro [solved]
On 11 Jul
On 11 Jul 2003 17:12:51 +1000
Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered:
BLOODY BEGINNING
as I said, I really wanted that network install to succeed, I know, I
know, whatever works, but it was bugging me...
Heh. Go have another!
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Title: RE: [newbie] How to get into BIOS on Compaq Deskpro
try F8
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of JoeHill
Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 1:11 PM
To: Mandrake Newbs
Subject: [newbie] How to get into BIOS on Compaq Deskpro
On boot,
On Compaq Deskpro computers you have to hit the F10 key at boot to go to the BIOS
(this will work only if you see a white flashing block at boot up). If this doesn't
work, go to compaq web site and download the proper F10 utility disk for your system.
Note that Compaq Deskpro uses a partition
Now that was helpful Joe!
Try using the F10 or F12 key when you see a blinking cursor, probably in the upper
right-nad corner.
It will only flash for about 3 to 4 seconds maximum so you have to be fast! On older
systems Compaq
used to use different hotkeys to enter the BIOS.
Lanman
Want to
Joe - From that magic era I do believe f10 is the key (I made a pun 8^)
MRW
- Original Message -
From: Lanman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 4:06 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] How to get into BIOS on Compaq Deskpro [solved]
Now that was helpful Joe!
On Thu, 10 Jul 2003 15:55:17 -0400
Albert Charron [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered:
Note that Compaq Deskpro uses a partition on the hard drive to store
bios informations, so if it's not the original hard drive in the
system, it is likely you do not have this partition and you won't be
able to get
On Thu, 10 Jul 2003 12:09:40 -0700
[EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered:
try F8
Thanks, I'll try that next time I boot. I loaded Win98 for someone, so
I am sure I'll be rebooting often!
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Homepage: http://nodex.sytes.net
16:11:32 up 15 days, 21:52, 2 users,
On Fri, 2003-07-11 at 05:26, JoeHill wrote:
On Thu, 10 Jul 2003 14:10:37 -0400
JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered:
On boot, I don't see any method for getting into the BIOS.
I tried the usual del, F1, ctrl-F1, etc. I just keyboard error and
it boots anyway.
Answer: Can't be done, as
On Fri, 2003-07-11 at 04:10, JoeHill wrote:
On boot, I don't see any method for getting into the BIOS.
I tried the usual del, F1, ctrl-F1, etc. I just keyboard error and
it boots anyway.
Anyone else have one of these, uh, fine machines?
Hey, it was free, what can I say?
Hold down the
On 11 Jul 2003 09:36:35 +1000
Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered:
HOLD DOWN THE F10 WHILST BOOTING UP.
Nope. Not unless you have the original OS installed, which I don't.
See other posts.
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Joehill
Registered Linux user #282046
Homepage: http://nodex.sytes.net
20:07:31 up 16 days,
Lol!!!
Oh god, why do I talk to you... you are gonna get me in trouble again...
I certainly hope my reply to that question can't be deemed unintelligable
and stupid,
not sure I can handle the critism a second time.. :-)
Stephen, whatever you are smoking on the east coast of AU... can i have
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