CMOS

Normally the computer tells you what to press to enter the CMOS setup on the Computer. If this is turned off, try pressing f1, f2, insert, or delete keys on bootup, you can check the compaq support site for this exact key sequence(www.compaq.com). If this does not work, you may have a system that has the setup disabled. To fix this problem, you need to remove the case, and then look on the motherboard for a CMOS disable jumper, it really helps to have technical manuals when doing this, but you can usually guess the jumper. If you are still not able to get into the bios or there is no jumper, they you may have a corrupt BIOS. You can try reflashing the bios. The instructions, flash program and BIOS image are located at this link http://www.compaq.com/support/files/desktops/us/locate/24_19.html

Hope this helps....
...Andy Houghton

An easy way to enter the CMOS is to unplug your keyboard and start your computer. You will get a keyboard error press f1 to continue press f2 to enter setup. Then plug back in your keyboard and hit f2.

when compaqs are shipped they have a second partition on the hard drive which basically acts as half the bios. When this is lost you cannot get into the cmos by normal means. You need to contact compaq and have them send you a boot disk that will allow youto get into cmos

Hi if you have access to a pc on the net you can download them from the compaq site. I have done this for many models.

Best of luck

Rich

Compaq uses the f10 to get into the BIOS,
You should be able to change the boot order from there if that is what you want to do.

On some of the older compaq PC's you can make a softpaq while in the bois that will recreate the aformentioned system save partition. this may or may not apply considering the model of your PC.

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