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No setup?????

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by rilisgomez

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I have an old Compaq ap400 workstation with a p-2
450 mhz processor. I replaced the "c" drive which I was able to format and partition, but for some crazy reason I can not get the PC setup mode to come up so that I can change the device boot sequence to load my o/s from my cdrom. Can any one help me, please......!

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by statykserver

Try pressing different keys after post such as F1, F2, F10, F11, F12 if the DEL key is not working for you. Compaq used different key for entering setup.

by willcomp

Setup is F10 for Compaq PCs. Sarge is correct about older Compaq PCs (probably including yours) requiring setup floppies (usually a set of 3). The changeable part of setup on these oddballs is located in a non DOS partition on the hard drive which needs to be configured prior to partitioning and formatting the disk.

Files and instructions should still be available on HP.com.

Dalton

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